Enroll in our training courses
software training workshops and fire protection sessions, from basic to advanced levels
Pyrosim workshops
Four days workshop designed for beginning modelers:
Day 1:
- Introduction to FDS and Smokeview
- Elements of building a model
- Building models from CAD and Revit files
- Hands-on Construction of a Simple model using PyroSim
- Using Smokeview to View the Results of a Simple model
Day 2:
- Choice of cell size
- Optimizing multiple meshes
- Trouble-shooting numerical instabilities
- Model validation and uncertainty
- Hardware and software Requirements
- HVAC
- Reactions
- Fires
- Materials
- Surfaces
- Sprinklers and Suppression
Day 3:
- Data Collection
- Performance-based Design, with Examples
- Evaluating FDS Reports
- Strengths and Weaknesses of FDS
- Resources
Day 4:
- How FDS models fires
- How FDS can and can’t extinguish a fire
- Liquid fuels
- Extra species
- Multiple reactions (lumped species)
- Advanced control features
- Smokeview tours
- Smokeview movies
- Assorted Smokeview tricks
- FDS review checklist
Pathfinder workshops
Two days workshop designed for beginning modelers:
Day 1:
- Introduction to Evacuation Modelling
- Creating Geometry
- Occupants
- Examples
- Resources
Day 2:
- Additional features to evaluate the evacuation process
- ASET vs RSET
- Additional examples
- Evacuation modeling report
Fire Protection basics
Six sessions – two sessions per week for three weeks – elaborating the following:
- Introduction
- Basics of fire science
- Water supplies for fixed fire protection
- Influence of various factors on water supply need
- Water supply requirements for sprinkler system
- Standpipes and hose systems
- Water additives (Foam)
- Halon and Halon-replacement agents
- Smoke Management
- Detection and alarm
- Concepts of egress design
advanced Fire Protection
Six sessions – two sessions per week for three weeks – elaborating the following:
- Fluid mechanics and thermochemistry
- Properties of building materials
- Flames and fire plumes
- Heat release rates
- Engineering data
- Overview of modeling of fires using CFD analysis
- Human behavior in fires
- Hydraulic model in assessing emergency movement
- Overview on computer evacuation modeling
- Considerations for fire protection system selection
- Considerations for coordinating and interfacing fire protection and life safety systems
- Fire scenarios
- Performance-based design