Digital Twins for Wildfires
A major direction of our research is the modeling and understanding of fire. This research is supported by through an ERC Consolidator grant. More details of this project are available here: www.wildfiretwins.org.
Wildfires are one of the most destructive natural disasters. Their unpredictable behaviour and complex physical dynamics make them incredibly challenging to manage. Traditional methods often fall short in keeping up with their fast-moving nature, creating a need for more effective solutions. Digital twins, which combine virtual models and real-world simulations, have emerged as a promising tool to address this issue. With this in mind, the ERC-funded WildfireTwins project aims to create detailed 3D models of ecosystems, coupled with physical simulations, to develop real-time wildfire simulations. These digital twins will enable better decision-making for firefighting services. By using photorealistic imagery and AI-driven tools, the project will offer innovative solutions for combating this global threat.
Selected Publications:
J. Nazarenus, Dominik Michels, W. Palubicki, S. Kou, F.-L. Zhang, S. Pirk, R. Koch, Gaussians on Fire: High-Frequency Reconstruction of Flames, 2025
H. Wrede, A. R. Wagner, S. M. Mahfuz, W. Pałubicki, D. L. Michels, S. Pirk, Fire-X: Extinguishing Fire with Stoichiometric Heat Release, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia), 2025
[Website], [Preprint], [Video]
D. Liu, J. Klein, W. Pałubicki, S. Pirk, D. L. Michels, Flame Forge: Combustion of Generalized Wooden Structures, ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), 2025
[Preprint], [DOI], [ArXiv], [Video]
A. Kokosza, H. Wrede, D. G. Esparza, M. Makowski, D. Liu, D. L. Michels, S. Pirk, W. Pałubicki, Scintilla: Simulating Combustible Vegetation for Wildfires, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH), 2024
[Website], [Preprint], [Video], [Bibtex]
T. Hädrich, D. T. Banuti, W. Pałubicki, S. Pirk, D. L. Michels, Fire in Paradise: Mesoscale Simulation of Wildfires, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2021
[Website], [Preprint], [Video], [Talk], [Two Minute Papers], [Gallery of Fluid Motion], [Bibtex]