Throughout its development, FDS has been aimed at solving practical fire problems in fire protection engineering, while at the same time providing a tool to study fundamental fire dynamics and combustion.įDS is a program that reads input parameters from a text file, computes a numerical solution to the governing equations, and writes user-specified output data to files. The software solves numerically a form of the Navier-Stokes nist-equations appropriate for low-speed, thermally-driven flow, with an emphasis on smoke and heat transport from fires.Įxample of a FDS fire scenario rendered by Smokeview ( full tutorial list) What is FDS?įire Dynamics Simulator ( FDS) is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of fire-driven fluid flow. In these pages the input parameters of the simulation are expressed but not explained in detail (explanation is often not necessary for non-beginner users)Įven though the FDS tutorials presented in this website are quite detailed, for more complete information you should always check the FDS User Guide and the FDS Verification and Validations guides.

FDS examples – these are examples of FDS simulations.

If you are new to FDS you should fist check out the beginner tutorials for easier FDS simulations.

FDS tutorials – these tutorial contain specific and detailed instructions for different subjects.

Basic FDS tutorials – these are meant for people who want to learn FDS but have never used it.

Oxygen Volume Fraction in a Staircase Fire.

Remove obstructions during a simulation in FDS.The tutorials of this website are divided into three categories:

Pyrosim tutorials