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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

Contact us by phone (+2-0101-986-8516) or by mail (info@fireraters.com) for prices and dates