Fire Models: Website for Survey of Fire and Smoke Computer Models

    Performance-based codes are now providing an opportunity for Fire Protection Engineers to apply engineered solutions and use advanced calculation techniques or in other words computer fire modeling. A useful website to overview the range of computer models in fire is via the following website: www.firemodelsurvey.com. The website lists 168 fire models in six categories such as fire endurance, egress, detector response, zone, field and miscellaneous. One can get further information on most of the models via webpage links. The background to the survey is also available on the website in the form of two downloadable articles that were published in the Society of Fire Protection Engineers' Journal of Fire Protection Engineering, Vol. 4(3), 1992 and Vol. 13(2), 2003.