- Author
- Dietenberger, M. A.
- Title
- Technical Reference and User's Guide for FAST/FFM Version 3.
- Coporate
- Dayton Univ., OH
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- NIST GCR 91-589, May 1991, 152 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Contract
- NIST-GRANT-60NANBSD0557
- Keywords
- compartment fires | computer models | predictive models | fire spread | furniture | room fires | smoke | smoke transport | toxic gases
- Abstract
- The FAST/FFM computer model provides dynamic, quasi-three-dimensional predictions of furniture fire growth and burnout in a room as well as of the spread of both nontoxic and toxic gases, smoke, and fire to other rooms. This reference guide provides a detailed description of the furniture fire model (FFM) equations, the program structure of FFM and its insertion into FAST, the FFM data input requirements, and the output produced by version 3 of the model.