Fire Modeling and Fire Simulations
WorldWide Fire Safety Experts, LLC uses all available experience, training, talent, and expertise to answer questions. These questions may be posed by insurance carriers, building owners, and/or attorneys. For example, there could be a question of why a building with a fire sprinkler system burns to the ground.
Fire Dynamic Simulator (FDS) is the most reliable and respectable fire model available. This is used in modeling either recreated fire conditions or anticipated future fire conditions. This and other technology assist in answering challenging questions of design for future construction projects. The expertise of WorldWide Fire Safety Experts team means you can be confident in your designs.
Using Fire Modeling for Due Diligence
Fire modeling and its results play a critical role in litigation support. For this reason, the selection and assessment of fire data for the fire modeling is an exercise in due diligence. It is common practice is a clear definition of boundaries conditions. There should be the application of a sensitivity analysis on known key factors such the fuel size of the fire.
In most cases, there are several variables that cannot be positively identified or determined. At times, ventilation status was unknown during the fire event. Yet, we know that ventilation plays an important role in the development and spread of a fire in structures.
Key points needed in Fire Modeling are:
- Fire investigation to collect data and evidence
- Desktop research on Code and Regulations
- Desktop research on validated fire data
- Test theories and refine input data
- Formulate opinions based upon facts and findings.
As the saying goes, “a picture is worth a 1,000 words” and with the advent of more powerful computing capabilities, it is now possible to create animated simulated fires. Now one can say, “an animation is worth a billion words”. Indeed, both computing capabilities and our understanding of the physics and chemistry of fire modeling keep on improving!
Admissible and Scientifically Reliable
Fire Modeling includes all evidence and data to help support or refute a claim. Care is required in the documentation of facts and evidence. Similarly, the analysis of fire modeling should be done by professionals in the field of Fire and Life Safety..
Prediction and Reconstruction
Fire modeling is an extremely powerful and enlightening tool to forecast fire development, spread, mitigation. All those hypotheses can be investigated and accurate prediction are obtained.
Demonstrative and Convincing
The graphical companion of the FDS is Smokeview (SMV). It represents to-scale simplified yet realistics graphics over the simulation time. It is important to calculate accurate temperature and smoke development, but it is more important to be able able to show output data in a clear and persuasive fashion. FDS and SMV do that.