Citation

Floyd JE, Hunt SP, Williams FW, Tatem PA. J. Fire Prot. Eng. 2005; 15(3): 199-229.

Affiliation

Hughes Associates, Inc., 3610 Commerce Dr., Suite 817, Baltimore, MD 21227-1652, USA, ( jfloyd@haifire.com )

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1042391505051358

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

There is a need for fire modeling tools capable of rapid simulation of fire growth and smoke spread in multiple compartments with complex ventilation. Currently available tools are not capable of simulation of complex ventilation arrangements in a timely manner. To address this problem, a new fire model called Fire and Smoke SIMulator (FSSIM) has been developed. FSSIM is a network model whose core thermal hydraulic routines are based on MELCOR. FSSIM capabilities include remote ignition, multilayer heat conduction, radiation streaming, arbitrarily complex HVAC systems, detection, suppression, oxygen-limited combustion, and simple control systems.