Update History

• 14 Jan 2004 Calculation of total number of grid cells added to FDS Grid Diagnostic.
• 5 Nov 2003 Information on my employment agreement with R.W. Sullivan added to bio and consulting pages.
• 8 July 2000 Sign up available for the FireTools mailing list to be up to date with additions and revisions to the FireTools website.
• 7 July 2000 Added burnout time calculator for use with NIST's Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) to FireTools. Also corrected problem with adiabatic flame temperature calculation used in chemical equation balancer.
• 17 Sept 1999 Added water vapor thermophysical properties calculator and updated air thermophysical properties with plots of the curve-fit and error analysis in FireTools.
• 26 Aug 1999 Added "A Reference Guide for Specifying Combustion Chemistry Ratios in the CFAST and FASTLite Zone Models," PDF (33KB).
• 5 May 1999 Added Thesis PDF (573KB) entitled "A Computer Model of Fire Spread from Engine to Passenger Compartments in Post-Collision Vehicles".
• 8 April 1999 Added flame height correlation and air thermophysical property calculators to FireTools.
• 10 Mar 1999 WPI Thesis Proposal and Title Page Templates available in Word97 format for download from FireTools.
• 24 Feb 1998 TASCmesh grid generator for TASCflow available for download.
• 23 Jan 1998 Updated Links page.
• 8 Jan 1998 Added work from Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations to course work.