Fire and evacuation modelling skills now mainstream to fire safety engineering

摘要

The Fire Safety Engineering Group (FSEG) of the University of Greenwich conceived the term 'Computational Fire Engineering' (CFE) to describe the use of mathematical modelling in fire safety engineering (FSE), a discipline that is now mainstream in fire engineering practice and regulation. Engineers need to understand how and when to correctly apply models, while regulatory authorities responsible for approving building designs need to understand the validity of model predictions that underpin the proposed designs.