The development and application of group solvers in the SMARTFIRE fire field model

摘要

This paper describes a new solution technique - known as the 'group solver' - currently under development within the SMARTFIRE Computational Fluid Dynamics environment. The group solver is used to obtain numerical solutions to the algebraic equations associated with fire field modelling. The purpose of the technique is to reduce the computational overheads associated with traditional numerical solvers typically used in fire field modelling applications. In the example, discussed in this paper, the group solver is shown to provide a 37