VT Fire Simulation

General Project Information

• Leader: Gergely Sipos, EGI.eu
• Mailing List: vt-egi-intelligence-collection@mailman.egi.eu
• Status: Active
• Start Date: 10/Nov/2011
• End Date: When output is reached
• Meetings: Minutes of first meeting

Motivation

In the last decade fire science and fire engineering have grown thanks to the continuous progress of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), both in the field of theoretical modelling of physical phenomena and in the field of technological implementation of these models through the use of complex algorithms and thanks to the grown power of modern computers. CFD and numerical heat transfer are characterized by huge computational demand, far beyond the capabilities of current computers for certain applications. Not only computing power but also advanced networking and data storage systems are needed for this type of simulations. Correct parallel implementation of CFD techniques requires solution of nontrivial numerical problems. There are essentially two possibilities for simulating fire with CFD models:

• using general purpose CFD models to study the effects of fire (such as Fluent or StarCD)
• using CFD models purposely developed for the study of fire and its effects (such as FDS and Smartfire) - require good knowledge of fire and its effects; geometrical set-up of fire scenario is usually very complex, because these models at this stage do not include internal CAD features and do not allow automatic import of CAD files; PyroSim is a graphical user interface for FDS.

This Virtual Team follows the second option and aims to establish a fire and smoke simulation Virtual Research Community on EGI by

• Porting three types of parallel implementations of the FDS application to the European Grid Infrastructure.
• Identifying user communities for the ported application.
• Providing support for the communities in using the FDS application on EGI.
• further developing the FDS application based on the feedback from the users.

Output

The expected output of this project are:

• Parallel implementations of the FDS application on the European Grid Infrastructure, together with guides for users and software administrators.
• A European community actively using the FDS application on EGI.
• Support services provided for the FDS user community in multiple NGIs.

Tasks

The required output for the project will be achieved by the following tasks:

1. Contacting fire simulation teams within the NGIs and collecting input requirements from them for the EGI-enabled version of FDS
2. Porting three implementations of the FDS application to EGI according to the users' requirements: MPI application; OpenMP application; combined MPI-OpenMP application
3. Implementing different simulation use cases on EGI with the FDS application; analysing the results with the SmokeView visualiser tool
4. Developing training for fire and smoke simulation communities
5. Developing a marketing and communication plan to undertake the outreach to the fire simulation community at their events

Requirements:

• The process should be flexible enough so it can be used in various interview and conversation situations;
• The process should be simple enough so it does not cause an overhead for interviewers;
• The process should result information that can be processed later.

Members

• EGI.eu:
  • Gergely Sipos
• NGIs - confirmed:
  • Finland: Vera Hansper
  • France: Genevieve Romier
  • Germany: Torsten Antoni
  • Hungary: Szabolcs Hernath, Robert Lovas, Agnes Szeberenyi
  • Lithuania: Jelena Tamuliene
  • Poland: Mariusz Sterzel
  • Portugal: Goncalo Borges, Joao Pina
  • Slovakia: Jolana Sebestyenova, Peter Kurdel
  • Spain: Miguel Angel Nunez-Vega
  • Switzerland: Sergio Maffioletti
  • United Kingdom: Claire Devereux

• NGIs - unconfirmed:
  • The Netherlands: Tom Visser

May join:

• SE
• MC

Progress

1. Define what we (an an NGI, or as a community) would like to know about the conversations of NGIs and scientific communities?
   1. VT members to answer a set of related questions at NGI_community_interactions