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CFAST – Consolidated Model of Fire Growth and Smoke Transport (Version 7) Volume 1: Technical Reference Guide

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Richard D. Peacock, Kevin B. McGrattan, Glenn P. Forney, Paul A. Reneke

Abstract

CFAST is a two-zone fire model capable of predicting the environment in a multi-compartment structure subjected to a fire. It calculates the time evolving distribution of smoke and fire gases and the temperature throughout a building during a user- prescribed fire. This report describes the equations which constitute the model, the physical basis for these equations, and an evaluation of the sensitivity and predictive capability of the model.
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Technical Note (NIST TN) -
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Technical Note (NIST TN)
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Keywords

Building fires, fire growth, fire modeling, hazard assessment, smoke transport
Fire and Fire modeling

Citation

Peacock, R. , McGrattan, K. , Forney, G. and Reneke, P. (2015), CFAST – Consolidated Model of Fire Growth and Smoke Transport (Version 7) Volume 1: Technical Reference Guide, Technical Note (NIST TN), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.TN.1889v1 (Accessed April 19, 2024)

Created December 15, 2015, Updated June 2, 2021