Thermal Performance of Fire Fighters Protective Clothing. 2. Protective Clothing Performance Simulator-User's Manual

摘要

PCPS is an abbreviation for the Protective Clothing Performance Simulator. PCPS is a software tool for predicting the thermal performance of fire fighter clothing, in protecting skin from burn injury that results from exposure to high intensity thermal radiation. PCPS will allow the user to easily set up a numerical experiment using an interactive Graphical User Interface. The interface will allow the user to study transient heat and mass transfer through the multi-layered fabric/skin assemblies with or without air gaps. Fabric layer characteristics, air gap thickness, moisture levels, compression, boundary conditions and other advanced features can be prescribed through this graphical user interface. The results of the simulation can then be interactively visualized using a set of pre-defined xy plots and animations, included with the software. This manual is intended to provide the basic information necessary to use the PCPS software, to perform a simulation and to interpret the results, but is not intended to develop the rigorous underlying theory behind the numerical simulations. Readers who are interested in these details are referred to the technical manual of PCPS. The technical manual and this user's manual are included in pdf format with the PCPS software tool.