NIST Fire Fighter Trainer Project

Training Tools - Phase 1

Phase one of the NIST Fire Fighter Trainer Project is to create illustrations and animations using FDS and Smokeview illustrating basic fire and smoke flow behavior encountered when fire fighting.

NIST Fire Dynamic Simulator (FDS) and Smokeview

What are FDS and Smokeview?

FDS is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model 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. Smokeview is a visualization program that is used to display the results of an FDS simulation.

FDS and Smokeview are available for downloading at: http://fire.nist.gov/fds/


Door closed	Door open

Door closed, roof vented	Door open, roof vented

Simulations illustrating the effect of open doors and vented roofs on fire and smoke flow: All doors and vents are closed. Smoke drops to the floor. (4 MB) All doors and vents are open. (6 MB) Door is open. (5 MB) Roof vent in target room is open (5 MB)