Research Output

Publications

2026

Thermal runaway and fire behavior of large-format prismatic LFP cells under external heating and overcharge conditions

E. Funk, B. Andres Valiente, C. Birksø Eriksen, C. Cruz-Cardona, K. Livkiss, F. Restuccia.

Journal Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries. 2026.
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The hidden variable: how data gaps shape battery fire safety engineering

E. Funk, K. Livkiss, B. Andres Valiente, F. Restuccia.

Journal Fire Technology. 2026.
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Lithium-ion battery design fires in performance-based fire safety engineering: A review and scenario cluster framework

E. Funk, K. Livkiss, B. Andres Valiente, G. Rein, F. Restuccia.

Journal Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries. 2026.
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Experimental study on the radiative heat flux from flaming 18650- and 26650-type LFP battery cells

F. Lugaresi, P. Bugryniec, H. Sadeghi, D. Williams, M. Wootton, S. Brown, F. Restuccia.

Journal Fire Safety Journal. 2026.
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2025

A perspective on lithium-ion battery fire safety: from experiments to modelling approaches

F. Restuccia.

Journal Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 2025.
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Modelling 18650-type lithium-ion battery fires using surrogate fuels

H. Sadeghi, F. Restuccia.

Journal Fire Safety Journal. 2025.
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Investigating Heat Transfer to Surrounding from Flaming Batteries Utilizing a Surrogate Fuel Model

F. Lugaresi, F. Restuccia.

Conference Proceedings of the Eleventh International Seminar on Fire and Explosion Hazards (ISFEH11). 2025.
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Flame heat emissions in 18650-type lithium-ion battery thermal runaway with thermally active particles

H. Sadeghi, F. Restuccia.

Conference Proceedings of the Eleventh International Seminar on Fire and Explosion Hazards (ISFEH11). 2025.
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Kinetic modelling of thermal decomposition in lithium-ion battery components during thermal runaway

H. Sadeghi, F. Restuccia.

Journal Journal of Power Sources. 2025.
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2024

Thermal runaway and flame propagation in battery packs: Numerical simulation and deep learning prediction

Z. Wang, H. Sadeghi, X. Huang, F. Restuccia.

Journal Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics. 2024.
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Sensitivity of wildfire modelling to physical parameters

I. Richards, F. Restuccia.

Journal Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 2024.
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Evaluating impacts of a LFP battery fire within a subsurface train compartment

A. Mamgain, F. Restuccia.

Journal Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 2024.
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Pyrolysis-based modelling of 18650-type lithium-ion battery fires in thermal runaway with LCO, LFP and NMC cathode

H. Sadeghi, F. Restuccia.

Journal Journal of Power Sources. 2024.
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2023

Calculating Heat Release Rates from Lithium-Ion Battery Fires: A Methodology Using Digital Imaging

M. Wise, P.A. Christensen, N. Dickman, J. McDonald, W. Mrozick, S. Lambert, F. Restuccia.

Journal Fire Technology. 2023.
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Experimentally-verified thermal-electrochemical simulations of a cylindrical battery using physics-based, simplified and generalised lumped models

A. Sarmadian, W.D. Widanage, B. Shollock, F. Restuccia.

Journal Journal of Energy Storage. 2023.
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2022

Benchmarking Between COMSOL and GPYRO in Predicting Self-Heating Ignition of Lithium-Ion Batteries

Z. Hu, X. He, F. Restuccia, G. Rein.

Journal Fire Technology. 2022.
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An Experimentally-Verified Thermal-Electrochemical Simulation Model of a 21700 Cell Using a Lumped Semi-Empirical Battery Model

A. Sarmadian, Y. Yu, J. Marco, B. Shollock, F. Restuccia.

Conference HEFAT. 2022, 128–133, ISBN 978-0-7972-1886-4.
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Experimental study of the effect of the state of charge on self-heating ignition of large ensembles of lithium-ion batteries in storage

X. He, Z. Hu, F. Restuccia, J. Fang, G. Rein.

Journal Applied Thermal Engineering. 2022, 212, 118621.
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Heat transfer effects on accelerating rate calorimetry of the thermal runaway of Lithium-ion batteries

X. He, C. Zhao, Z. Hu, F. Restuccia, F. Richter, Q. Wang, G. Rein.

Journal Process Safety Environmental Protection. 2022, 162, 684–693.
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Fire Experiment Inside a Very Large and Open-Plan Compartment: x-ONE

E. Rackauskaite, M. Bonner, F. Restuccia, N. Fernandez Anez, E.G. Christensen, N. Roenner, W. Wegrzynski, P. Turkowski, P. Tofilo, M. Heidari, P. Kotsovinos, I. Vermesi, F. Richter, Y. Hu, C. Jeanneret, R. Wadhwani, G. Rein.

Journal Fire Technology. 2022, 58, 905–939.
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2021

Static Electricity Incident Review

I. Sandu, F. Restuccia.

Report Technical Notes. National Fire Protection Association Research Foundation. 2021.
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Self-heating ignition of large ensembles of Lithium-ion batteries during storage with different states of charge and cathodes

X. He, Z. Hu, F. Restuccia, H. Yuan, G. Rein.

Journal Applied Thermal Engineering. 2021, 197, 117349.
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Spontaneous ignition of soils: A multi-step reaction scheme to simulate self-heating ignition of smouldering peat fires

H. Yuan, F. Restuccia, G. Rein.

Journal International Journal of Wildland Fire. 2021, 30(6), 440–453.
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Numerical Study of Scale Effects on Self-Heating Ignition of Lithium-Ion Batteries Stored in Boxes, Shelves and Racks

Z. Hu, X. He, F. Restuccia, H. Yuan, G. Rein.

Journal Applied Thermal Engineering. 2021, 190, 116780.
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Thermal and mechanical abuse of electric vehicle pouch cell modules

P.A. Christensen, Z. Milojevic, M.S. Wise, M. Ahmeid, P.S. Attidekou, W. Mrozik, N.A. Dickmann, F. Restuccia, S.M. Lambert, P.K. Das.

Journal Applied Thermal Engineering. 2021, 189, 116623.
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Anisotropic and homogeneous model of heat transfer for self-heating ignition of large ensembles of Lithium-ion batteries during storage

Z. Hu, X. He, F. Restuccia, G. Rein.

Journal Applied Thermal Engineering. 2021, 197, 117301.
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2020

Experimental Study of Self-heating Ignition of Lithium-Ion Batteries During Storage: Effect of the Number of Cells

X. He, F. Restuccia, Y. Zhang, Z. Hu, X. Huang, J. Fang, G. Rein.

Journal Fire Technology. 2020, 56, 2649–2669.
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Meta-Review of Fire Safety of Lithium-Ion Batteries: Industry Challenges and Research Contributions

L. Bravo Diaz, X. He, Z. Hu, F. Restuccia, M. Marinescu, J. Varela Barreras, Y. Patel, G. Offer, G. Rein.

Journal Journal of the Electrochemical Society. 2020, 167, 090559.
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Computational study on self-heating ignition and smouldering spread of coal layers in flat and wedge hot plate configurations

H. Yuan, F. Restuccia, G. Rein.

Journal Combustion and Flame. 2020, 214, 346–357.
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Numerical Study of Self-Heating Ignition of a Box of Lithium-Ion Batteries During Storage

Z. Hu, X. He, F. Restuccia, G. Rein.

Journal Fire Technology. 2020, 56, 2603–2621.
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2019

Conduction

F. Restuccia.

Book Chapter Encyclopedia of Wildfires and Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires. 2019.
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Experimental methods and scales in smouldering wildfires

E. Christensen, Y. Hu, F. Restuccia, M.A. Santoso, X. Huang, G. Rein.

Book Chapter Chapter 17 in Fire effects on soil properties. 2019, 267–280.
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Experimental measurement of particle size effects on the self-heating ignition of biomass piles: Homogeneous samples of dust and pellets

F. Restuccia, N. Fernandez-Anez, G. Rein.

Journal Fuel. 2019, 256, 115838.
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A computational model to simulate self-heating ignition across scales, configurations, and coal origins

H. Yuan, F. Restuccia, F. Richter, G. Rein.

Journal Fuel. 2019, 236, 1100–1109.
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Quantifying self-heating ignition of biochar as a function of feedstock and the pyrolysis reactor temperature

F. Restuccia, O. Masek, R.M. Hadden, G. Rein.

Journal Fuel. 2019, 236, 201–213.
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Transient gas and particle emissions from smouldering combustion of peat

Y. Hu, E. Christensen, F. Restuccia, G. Rein.

Journal Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. 2019, 37(3), 4035–4042.
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2018

Carbon monoxide diffusion through porous walls: evidence found in incidents and experimental studies

I. Vermesi, F. Restuccia, C. Walker-Ravena, G. Rein.

Journal Frontiers in Built Environment. 2018, 4, 44.
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2017

Self-heating behavior and ignition of shale rock

F. Restuccia, N. Ptak, G. Rein.

Journal Combustion and Flame. 2017, 176, 213–219.
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Self-heating ignition of natural reactive porous media

F. Restuccia.

Thesis Imperial College PhD thesis. 2017.
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Self-ignition of natural fuels: Can wildfires of carbon-rich soil start by self-heating?

F. Restuccia, X. Huang, G. Rein.

Journal Fire Safety Journal. 2017, 91, 828–834.
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Detection of landmines in peat soils by controlled smouldering combustion: Experimental proof of concept of O-Revealer

G. Rein, X. Huang, F. Restuccia, T. McArdle.

Journal Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science. 2017, 88, 632–638.
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2016

Living on a flammable planet: interdisciplinary, cross-scalar and varied cultural lessons, prospects and challenges

C.I. Ross, A.C. Scott, C.M. Belcher, W.G. Chaloner, J. Aylen, R.B. Bird, M.R. Coughlan, B.R. Johnson, F.H. Johnston, J. McMorrow, T. Steelman, and the Fire and Mankind Discussion Group.

Journal Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. 2016, 371, 20150469.
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Experimental Study of the Formation and Collapse of an Overhang in the Surface Spread of Smouldering Peat Fires

X. Huang, F. Restuccia, M. Gramola, G. Rein.

Journal Combustion and Flame. 2016, 168, 393–402.
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2015–2012

Solitary wave-based delamination detection in composite plates using a combined granular crystal sensor and actuator

E. Kim, F. Restuccia, J. Yang, C. Daraio.

Journal Smart Materials and Structures. 2015, 24(12), 125004.
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Consideration of Wind Speed Variability in Creating a Regional Aggregate Wind Power Time Series

L. Cradden, F. Restuccia, S.L. Hawkins, G.P. Harrison.

Journal Resources. 2014, 3(1), 215–234.
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Construction and Test of the Magnets for the AEgIS Experiment

A. Dudarev, J. Bremer, G. Burghart, L. Deront, M. Doser, H. ten Kate, D. Perini, F. Restuccia, S. Ravat, T. Winkler.

Journal IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 2012, 22(3), 4500304.
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