Users' Guide to FIRST (Fire Simulation Technique), a Comprehensive Single-Room Fire Model

摘要

The document is an instructional manual which will facilitate use of the computer program FIRST. (The name 'FIRST' is an acronym; it stands for FIRe Simulation Technique). This is a prototype of a 'benchmark' computer model of how a fire develops in a single compartment. Given a fire (or fires) ignited on one or more fuel sources, FIRST describes the principal phenomena which occur, such as the movement of gases in and out of the compartment, the growth of the fire(s), the development of a hot layer, etc. This guide is not meant to be documentation for the model, and so detailed descriptions of the physics or of the program structure have been kept to a minimum.