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Author
Portier, R. W. | Reneke, P. A. | Jones, W. W. | Peacock, R. D.
Title
User's Guide for CFAST Version 1.6.
Coporate
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Report
NISTIR 4985, December 1992, 106 p.
Distribution
Available from National Technical Information Service
Keywords
compartment fires | fire growth | mathematical models | numerical models | predictive models | room fires | smoke | toxicity
Abstract
CFAST is a zone model capable of predicting the environment in a multi-compartment structure subjected to a fire. This guide provides a detailed description of the pre- and post-processing routines used by the model, the data input requirements and the output produced by version 1.6 of the model.