It models vegetative fuel either by explicitly defining the volume of the vegetation or, for surface fuels such as grass, by assuming uniform fuel at the air-ground boundary. The Wildland-Urban Fire Dynamics Simulator (WFDS) is an extension developed by the US Forest Service that is integrated into FDS and allows it to be used for wildfire modeling. Throughout its development, FDS has been aimed at solving practical fire problems in fire protection engineering, while at the same time providing a tool to study fundamental fire dynamics and combustion. The other half consist of residential and industrial fire reconstructions. To date, about half of the applications of the model have been for design of smoke handling systems and sprinkler/detector activation studies.

The first version of FDS was publicly released in February 2000. Smokeview is the companion visualization program that can be used to display the output of FDS. The computer program solves numerically a large eddy simulation form of the Navier–Stokes equations appropriate for low-speed, thermally-driven flow, with an emphasis on smoke and heat transport from fires, to describe the evolution of fire.įDS is free software developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the United States Department of Commerce, in cooperation with VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. JSTOR ( July 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)įire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of fire-driven fluid flow.Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: 'Fire Dynamics Simulator' – news

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