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FireTools
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Statement of purpose:
FireTools is a web-based resource that includes routine calculations and material properties relevant to Fire Protection Engineering analyses. The resources contained on the FireTools web-site are intended for the responsible use by students, engineers, and practitioners of Fire Protection Engineering who have an adequate understanding of fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fire dynamics. Although each calculator has been verified with the results of hand calculations, there is no absolute guarantee of the accuracy of these calculation tools. The user's engineering judgement, in addition to common sense, are necessary for the proper use of these tools.
Mailing List:
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Fire Tools and Resources
Fire Dynamics
Flame Height CorrelationsAlpert's Ceiling Jet Correlations
Thomas' Flashover Correlation
Pool Fire Mass Loss and Burning Rate
Chemical Equation Balancer and Adiabatic Flame Temperature Calculator
CFAST
Calculating Combustion Ratios for CFAST -- guidance on entering combustion ratios as input for the CFAST zone model.FDS
(NEW) FDS Grid Diagnostic -- checks the number of nodes in the I, J, and K directions for compatibility with the Poisson solver.Burnout Time Calculator for FDS v1.0 allows you to see if the default value of 0.25 for TBO is appropriate to the problem at hand.
Thermophysical Properties
Thermophysical Properties of Air -- density, specific heat, thermal conductivity, etc. of air as a function of temperature.Thermophysical Properties of Water Vapor -- density, specific heat, and thermal conductivity as a function of temperature. Plots of measured data with corresponding curve-fit equation and error analysis.
Other Fire Resources
NIST's Fire Research Information ServicesFire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) computational fluid dynamics-based fire model developed at NIST's Building and Fire Research Lab that allows for both Large Eddy Simulation (LES) or Direct Numerical Solution (DNS). It is available for free and includes Smokeview post-processor for visualization.
Useful Non-Fire Resources
Field Codes for MS Word -- a great way for using a generic numbering scheme for referencing citations, figures, tables, etc in a report. It takes a little time at first to understand how they work, but it saves much frustration later on. One of Word's best (and relatively unknown) redeeming qualities. WPI Thesis Templates for MS Word -- Title Page and Proposal templates.Bug Reports, Comments:
- All questions, comments, concerns, and suggestions for the FireTools site can be sent to ierardi@wpi.edu.
- To report a bug or error in any calculator please send an email with the URL of the tool you are experiencing problems with as well as any relevant details.
- If there is a calculation tool that you would like to see on this site please email your request along with an appropriate citation of the calculation procedure.