This textbook on fire dynamics provides a comprehensive description of fuels involved in fires, definitions related to fire, thermodynamics for fire calculations, basics of transport processes and fundamental aspects of combustion related to fire, physical descriptions of premixed and non-premixed flames, detailed analysis of the characteristics of fires from solid and liquid fuels, including ignition, spread and burning rates and physical aspects of fire plumes, compartment fires and dust fires. The contents also highlight fundamental aspects related to the evaporation of liquid fuels and pyrolysis of solid fuels which are explained with simplified mathematical expressions. The book includes pedagogical features such as worked examples to illustrate mathematical calculations involved in fire analysis and end-of-chapter review questions. This book proves useful for students, researchers and industry professionals alike. Contents 1 Basic Considerations 2 Review of Thermodynamics and Transport Processes for Fires 3 Diffusion and Premixed Flames Related to Fires 4 Burning of Liquids 5 Burning of Solids 6 Properties of Fire Plumes 7 Compartment Fires 8 Dust Flames Appendix: Parameters Involved Index About the Authors Dr. Ali S. Rangwala is a Professor of Fire Protection Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), where he has been teaching since 2006. He has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Govt. College of Engineering, Pune, an M.S. in Fire Protection Engineering from University of Maryland, College Park, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of California, San Diego. His research interests are in problems related to industrial fire and explosion safety. He teaches three courses on Industrial Fire Protection, Explosion Protection, and Combustion and Fire in the Department of Fire Protection Engineering at WPI. He has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed journal articles. He has served on various panels for the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Science Foundation (NSF), and National Academy of Science (NAS). Dr. Vasudevan Raghavan is currently a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), India. He obtained his PhD degree from IITM and has carried out his post-doctoral research in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. His areas of research include Computational Fluid Dynamics for reacting flows, fire modelling, evaporation and combustion of liquid fuel droplets, combustion of liquid fuel pool, gasification and combustion of coal and biomass. He has authored about 120 international peer reviewed journal articles, 60 international conference articles and a book on Combustion Technology – Essentials of Flames and Burners. He teaches graduate courses such as Theory of Fire Propagation, Fundamentals of Combustion, Combustion Technology and Applied Thermodynamics at the Department of Mechanical Engineering in IITM.