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Author
Bukowski, R. W., III | Sequin, C.
Title
FireWalk System: Fire Modeling in Interactive Virtual Environments.
Coporate
California Univ., Berkeley
Sponsor
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Contract
NIST-GRANT-60NANB5D0082
Book or Conf
International Conference on Fire Research and Engineering (ICFRE2), Second (2nd). Proceedings. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE). August 3-8, 1997, Society of Fire Protection Engineers, Boston, MA, Gaithersburg, MD, 72-83 p., 1998
Keywords
predictive models | fire research | fire protection engineering | fire models
Abstract
The authors present an overview of the FireWalk system, which combines the Berkeley Architectural Walkthru Program with the NIST CFAST fire simulator. The system allows fires to be created, controlled, and observed from directly within a virtual building environment.