Expert CFD modelling
Our team are well versed in the use of CFD ( FDS and Pyrosim ) to determine design parameters based on heat and smoke flows.
Fire and smoke modelling
FDS – Pyrosim
The company uses Computational Fluid Dynamics package FDS (Fire Dynamics Simulator) to derive models of fire-driven fluid flow. The software solves numerically a form of the Navier-Stokes equations appropriate for low-speed, thermally-driven flow, with an emphasis on smoke and heat transport from fires.
The software can be used to solve all sorts of fire engineering problems but we mainly use it to determine the suitability of extended travel distances and to determine smoke extract requirements from basement car parking areas and residential common corridors.