- Author
- Budnick, E. K. | Walton, W. D.
- Title
- Computer Fire Models.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- NFPA FPH 1686,
- Book or Conf
- Fire Protection Handbook. 16th Edition. Section 21. Chapter 4, National Fire Protection Assoc., Quincy, MA, Cote, A. E.; Linville, J. L., Editors, 21/25-30 p., 1986
- Keywords
- predictive models | computer models | fire models | enclosures | computer programs | zone models | automatic sprinkler systems
- Identifiers
- ASET (Available Safe Egress Time); ASET-B; BFSM (Building Fire Simulation Model); COMPF2; FAST (Fire and Smoke Transport); Harvard; OSU (Ohio State University Compartment Fire Model); ASCOS (Analysis of Smoke Control Systems); DETACT-QS; EVACNET+ (Evacuation Network Computer Model); FASBUS-II (Fire Analysis of Steel Building Systems); FIRES-T3 (Fire Response of Structures--Thermal, Three-Dimensional Version)
- Abstract
- Computer models are simply computer programs which model or simulate a process or phenomenon. Computer models have been used for some time in the design and analysis of fire protection hardware. The use of computer models, commonly known as design programs, has become the industry's standard method for designing water supply and automatic sprinkler systems. These programs perform large numbers of tedious and lengthy calculations and provide the user with accurate, cost optimized designs in a fraction of the time required for manual procedures.