fds-smv

This is the development support site for the FDS-SMV Public Domain Project. Funded by the US Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). See disclaimer below...

IMPORTANT NOTE:

This is NOT, the Primary Website for FDS and Smokeview Information.

You can find the primary website at http://fire.nist.gov/fds

What is FDS and Smokeview?Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of fire-driven fluid flow. The software solves numerically a form of the Navier-Stokes equations appropriate for low-speed, thermally-driven flow, with an emphasis on smoke and heat transport from fires.

Smokeview (SMV) is an OpenGL based visualization program that is used to display the results of an FDS simulation.

Note: You can subscribe to the SVN Commit Log at http://groups.google.com/group/fds-smv-svn, and Issue Tracker Changes at http://groups.google.com/group/fds-smv-issues these groups are Announcement Only and allow users to watch Issue Tracker and Subversion activity through email.

DisclaimerFDS and Smokeview software are developed at 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 software is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. 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.

These World Wide Web pages in general and the FDS and Smokeview software in particular are provided as a public service by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). With the exception of material marked as copyrighted, information presented on these pages is considered public domain and may be distributed or copied. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits is requested.

The US Department of Commerce makes no warranty, expressed or implied, to users of the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS), and accepts no responsibility for its use. Users of FDS assume sole responsibility under Federal law for determining the appropriateness of its use in any particular application; for any conclusions drawn from the results of its use; and for any actions taken or not taken as a result of analysis performed using these tools.

Users are warned that FDS is intended for use only by those competent in the fields of fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, combustion, and heat transfer, and is intended only to supplement the informed judgment of the qualified user. The software package is a computer model that may or may not have predictive capability when applied to a specific set of factual circumstances. Lack of accurate predictions by the model could lead to erroneous conclusions with regard to fire safety. All results should be evaluated by an informed user.

Any mention of computer hardware or commercial software does not constitute endorsement by NIST, nor does it indicate that the products are necessarily those best suited for the intended purpose.

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