NIST’s Fire Dynamics Simulator was used to recreate fire conditions in a 1999 fire in a two-story duplex in Iowa. Three children and three firefighters were killed. The critical event was the on-set ...

National Institute of Standards and Technology – Two firefighters died from injuries sustained while fighting a June 2, 2011, fire in a multi-story, single-family dwelling in San Francisco. NIST used ...

NIST researchers used the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) to model the temperatures of smoke throughout the overhead compartment of an airliner. A 3D rendering of FDS's output shows a slice of smoke ...

Brian Teears explains how fire dynamics has changed as a result of modern construction and, thus, why officers and firefighters must account for this in terms of how heat, air and water interact.