sentences:  He has been involved in teaching and research in the general area of fire dynamics and has published over 100 papers.His wide range of research interests include the ignition characteristics of combustible materials and their fire growth characteristics, smoke production in fires, fire spread and fire dynamics, problems of non-linear dynamics with reference to fire modelling, the application of CFD to modelling flame spread, fire suppression and extinction and the response of steel-framed structures to fire exposure.Drysdale is a member of the Editorial Board for the Third Edition of the SFPE "Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering".