NIST’s Fire Dynamics Simulator was used to recreate fire conditions in a 1999 fire in a two-story duplex in Iowa. Three children and three firefighters were killed. The critical event was the on-set ...

MUNICH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SimScale (“SimScale”), the provider of the world’s first cloud-based engineering simulation solution, today announced the launch of the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) ...

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) scientists and engineers recently enhanced the capabilities of NIST's computer fire modeling software, a powerful suite of tools used worldwide in ...

ATF FRL – This video describes fire behavior in ventilation limited structures using live fire demonstrations, computer fire modeling (Fire Dynamics Simulator) and ATF field testing. The vast majority ...

The project is designed to help firefighters train by simulating the conditions of an actual vehicle fire. Other fire ...

NIST researchers used the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) to model the temperatures of smoke throughout the overhead compartment of an airliner. A 3D rendering of FDS's output shows a slice of smoke ...

A free interactive online training program for fire fighters and arson investigators that features fire research, video footage and expert analysis from the National Institute of Standards and ...

Headquartered in Wellington, New Zealand, engineering firm Holmes Group has five specialty engineering subsidiary companies in locations around the world. One of these, Holmes Fire, wanted to run ...

Wind conditions at a fire scene can make a critical difference on the behavior of the blaze and the safety of firefighters, even indoors, according to a new report. Wind conditions at a fire scene can ...