TY - GEN
T1 - Fireexplorer -a graphical user interace for fire modeling
AU - Swensen, D.
AU - Eddings, E.
AU - Halligan, M.
AU - McDonald, M.
AU - DesJardin, P.
AU - Borodai, S.
AU - Swede, D.
AU - Bockelie, M.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Fire modeling is used by Fire Protection Engineers and fire researchers to evaluate fire spread and damage for a wide variety of applications, including evaluating building fire protection systems, developing fire safety equipment and assisting in legal proceedings by assessing the source of a fire. Historically, empirical and zonal models that contained limited physics and accuracy were used for these analyses. Today, there is a greater emphasis on using Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) based models because these models can capture localized conditions (e.g., local temperatures, heat fluxes, gas composition, smoke travel) required to perform a proper analysis of a fire situation which can be crucial when evaluating product designs, safety procedures, fire reenactments and smoke transport. Although several fire modeling software packages are available, the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) package available from NIST is commonly used due to the fire modeling community having confidence in this tool because it has been validated. In this paper is described a new software package, FireExplorer® which can be used to simplify the timeconsuming and complex tasks required to create the inputs for the NIST FDS model, execute and monitor the simulation and view the results.. The tool employs an easy to use graphical user interface designed for use by the non-modeling expert. The tool contains all the capabilities required to set-up, execute, analyze and visualize a fire simulation in an environment that is robust, flexible and extensible.
AB - Fire modeling is used by Fire Protection Engineers and fire researchers to evaluate fire spread and damage for a wide variety of applications, including evaluating building fire protection systems, developing fire safety equipment and assisting in legal proceedings by assessing the source of a fire. Historically, empirical and zonal models that contained limited physics and accuracy were used for these analyses. Today, there is a greater emphasis on using Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) based models because these models can capture localized conditions (e.g., local temperatures, heat fluxes, gas composition, smoke travel) required to perform a proper analysis of a fire situation which can be crucial when evaluating product designs, safety procedures, fire reenactments and smoke transport. Although several fire modeling software packages are available, the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) package available from NIST is commonly used due to the fire modeling community having confidence in this tool because it has been validated. In this paper is described a new software package, FireExplorer® which can be used to simplify the timeconsuming and complex tasks required to create the inputs for the NIST FDS model, execute and monitor the simulation and view the results.. The tool employs an easy to use graphical user interface designed for use by the non-modeling expert. The tool contains all the capabilities required to set-up, execute, analyze and visualize a fire simulation in an environment that is robust, flexible and extensible.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/77954297268
U2 - 10.1115/IMECE2009-12636
DO - 10.1115/IMECE2009-12636
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9780791843765
T3 - ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings
SP - 161
EP - 166
BT - Proceedings of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition 2009, IMECE 2009
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - 2009 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE2009
Y2 - 13 November 2009 through 19 November 2009
ER -