Review of the CESSW Project
In the field of disaster prevention and monitoring, a research team from Russia, Brazil, and India won this competition.
This project focused on the mechanism of forest fuel ignition, the physical mechanism of spark,
as well as the behavior of surface fire and crown fire. The results of this project have a significant impact
on understanding the causes of forest fires and enhancing the alerting and prediction capabilities in BRICS countries.
| Call Number | Third BRICS STI Framework Programme Call, 2019 | |
| Project Code and Acronym | BRICS2019-142 “CESSW” | |
| Country | Research Institutions | Principal Investigators |
|---|---|---|
🇧🇷 Brazil |
University of São Paulo | Guenther C. Krieger Filho |
🇷🇺 Russia |
Voevodsky Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion SB RAS | Oleg Korobeinichev |
🇮🇳 India |
Indian Institute of Technology Madras | Amit Kumar |
🇨🇳 China |
University of Science and Technology | Naian Liu |
| Funding Agencies | National Council for Scientific and Technological Development of Brazil (CNPq), Russian Center for Scientific Information (RCSI), Department of Science & Technology of India (DST), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) | |
