

Working with both of the tools is far from being a job for the beginner and even average user since the mathematical concepts tackled and used for calculating the data are quite advanced. FDS and Smokeview can be used on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms as well as on other operating systems. Since where’s a fire there’s a smoke, the package is comprised of another utility, called Smokeview, a tool that offers a visualization of the data from Fire Dynamics Simulator. This is particular to the Hydrodynamic model however, the combustion model is also included among the features of the utility, just like the radiation transport equation and parallel processing. Basically, it relies on the idea that fire can be studied numerically.Īs such, the utility solves numerically a form of the Navier-Stokes equations fitting a low-speed and thermally-conducted flow, with a focus on the smoke and heat conveyance characteristic to fires. Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is a computational model for the fire-driven fluid flow.
