Fire modeling provides mathematical and scientific research into the behavior and problems associated with fire. Fire modeling is a useful tool for any area of fire safety, especially fire protection engineering, fire investigation, and fire suppression.
Once you complete the Week 7 readings, write a post to achieve the following:
- Briefly discuss the history and origin of fire modeling and why it has become an important tool in the fire service, especially in the fields of fire engineering and fire investigation.
- Briefly discuss the difference between a zone model and a field model.
- Read the article “The Use of Simulation in Fire Investigation” and briefly discuss how the Zone Model – Consolidated Model of Fire Growth and Smoke Transport (CFAST) and the Field Model – Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS), differed in their experiment.
- Read the “NIST Technical Note 1856” found in this week’s readings and then discuss the following:
a. Summarize the incident
b. Discuss the model used for the simulation
c. Discuss the results of the simulation
