CFAST

Description/Summary:

The Consolidated Model of Fire and Smoke Transport, CFAST, is a computer program that fire investigators, safety officials, engineers, architects and builders can use to simulate the impact of past or potential fires and smoke in a specific building environment. CFAST is a two-zone fire model used to calculate the evolving distribution of smoke, fire gases and temperature throughout compartments of a building during a fire.

See the full CFAST website for details: http://cfast.nist.gov

Sample Screenshots:

CFAST Simulation_Environment

Details

Type of software: Zone Fire Model

Authors:

Richard D. Peacock, Glenn P. Forney, Paul A. Reneke, and Walter W. Jones

System/Platform:

The latest version of the software, until now a DOS program, is designed to work with Windows and has been tested with Windows XP and Windows 7. The CFAST package includes NIST’s Smokeview program, which visualizes with colored, three-dimensional animations the results of the CFAST simulation of a specific fire’s temperatures, various gas concentrations and growth and movement of smoke layers across multi-room structures.

Licensing info:

CFAST is developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the United States Department of Commerce. CFAST is free software developed through the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) by employees of the Federal Government in the course of their official duties. Pursuant to Title 17, Section 105 of the United States Code, this work is not subject to copyright protection and is in the Public Domain.

Download information:

Software and documentation can be downloaded at the main CFAST page at http://cfast.nist.gov

References/Credits/Disclaimers:

NIST assumes no responsibility whatsoever for use by other parties of its source code, documentation or compiled executables, and makes no guarantees, expressed or implied, about its quality, reliability, or any other characteristic.