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Project
Simulation Environment for Onboard Fire Network Model

PI: Tomasz Haupt
Team Members: Gregory Henley, Bhargavi Parihar


Description:

The simulation environment provides a runtime environment for a third-party simulation package (currently a network model developed by Hughes associates,Inc.).
The environment comprises:

  1. Database containing the geometry of the ship, material properties and results of previous runs

  2. Graphical User Interface for setting the fire parameters (location, size, type, etc.), and the state of the ship (state of the ventilation system, doors
    and hatches, initial concentration of species, etc.)

  3. Graphical User Interface for setting simulation parameters (such as duration of the simulation)
  4. Input file generator that collects information from the GUI and the database and formats it according to the network model specification

  5. Real-time, 3d visualizations of the output: heat, smoke and toxins spread

  6. Graphical User Interface for replaying, and faster than real time replying of previous runs

  7. Graphical User Interface for back-to-back comparisons of results coming from two different simulations

Status of the Project


A prototype of the system has been demonstrated at the Workshop on Fire Suppression Technologies, Mobile, Alabama, February 24-27, 2003, and the slides from that demonstration are available here.

The ship CAD geometry was produced by Havlovic Engineering Services, and it represents ex-USS Shadwell, test area 688, emulating a submarine.
The simulation network model was developed and validated by Hughes Associates, Inc.

Current Activities

In preparation for deployment of the system, we are currently implementing automatic transfer of the ship geometry from CAD files (AutoCAD, Catia) into the fire model database.