- Author
- Hoover, J. B. | Tatem, P. A.
- Title
- Development of a Method for Representing Complex Geometries in a Fire Model. Interim Report 1998-1999.
- Coporate
- Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
- Sponsor
- Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA
- Report
- NRL/NR/6180-99-8367, April 12, 1999, 70 p.
- Keywords
- fire models | ships | architecture | computer programs
- Identifiers
- CFAST (Consolidated Fire growth And Smoke Transport); Structured Architecture for the Fire Environment (SAFE); structure class; compartment class; partition class; 3-D vector class; cyclic, undirected graph class
- Abstract
- This report documents the design and development of a prototype software system capable of representing complex geometries for use in an advanced zone fire model. We discuss the geometric limitations of the Consolidated Fire Growth and Smoke Transport (CFAST) model when applied to a real-world Navy problem and illustrate those shortcomings using a case study. An alternative approach to representing complex geometries is proposed and a prototype implementation of the concept is presented. For the benefit of developers, the application programming interfaces (APIs) for the prototype software are discussed in the Appendices. For every class, there is a brief description of the purpose of each public function, followed by the function syntax and a description of the function parameters and return value, if any. Some functions are overloaded so that there may be more than one syntax. Additional comments are also included where further explanation or discussion is needed.