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Author
Lautenberger, C. | Rein, G. | Fernandez-Pello, C.
Title
Application of a Genetic Algorithm to Estimate Material Properties for Fire Modeling From Bench-Scale Fire Test Data.
Coporate
California Univ., Berkeley
Journal
Fire Safety Journal, Vol. 41, No. 3, 204-214, April 2006
Keywords
algorithms | fire tests | fire models | material properties | pyrolysis | cone calorimeters | computational fluid dyanmics | methodology | fire growth | equations
Identifiers
Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS); input parameters to genetic algorithm; comparison of actual material properties used to generate simulated experimental data and material properties found with genetic algorithm; experimental materials: polypropylene, redwood, red oak; comparison of optimal material properties found with genetic algorithm and literature values; genetic algorithm (GA)