<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><style> body { font-family: "Calibri","Slate Pro",sans-serif,"sans-serif"; color:#262626 }</style> </head> <body lang="en-US"><div>For those who would like to simulate fires before building them, there is a good find here.</div><div><br></div><div>++++++++++</div><div><br></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Scott Goodman says:</span><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 4px; line-height: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid;"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><br style="line-height: 1.22em;"></div></blockquote><div><span style="line-height: 1.22em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">The fire simulator is from NIST (</span><a href="http://nist.gov/" target="_blank" style="line-height: 1.22em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">nist.gov</a><span style="line-height: 1.22em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">) and it's called:</span><span style="line-height: 1.22em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"> </span><strong style="line-height: 1.22em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS). </strong><span style="line-height: 1.22em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"> It is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of fire-driven fluid flow. The software solves numerically a form of the Navier-Stokes equations appropriate for low-speed, thermally-driven flow, with an emphasis on smoke and heat transport from fires. It allows the user to simulate a fire in a room or a whole building. </span></div><div><span style="line-height: 1.22em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 1.22em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">They can be downloaded from NIST as CFAST 7.0.0.... There are some good videos on you tube by a guy named Kristopher Overholt explaining how to use it.</span></div><div><br></div><div>++++++++++</div><div><br></div><div>It maybe just what you need to occupy your summer evenings.</div><div><br></div><div>Greetings</div><div>Crispin </div></body></html>