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VT Fire Simulation

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General Project Information

  • Leader: Ladislav Hluchý <hluchy.ui@savba.sk>, IISAS, Slovakia (Administration: Gergely Sipos <gergely.sipos@egi.eu>)
  • Mailing List: <to be setup>
  • Status: Initiated
  • Start Date: 21/12/2011
  • End Date: 30/06/2012
  • Meetings: VT Fire Simulation meetings:

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 Fire Dynamics Simulator (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 to use 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 the FDS application
  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

Members

  • NGIs - confirmed:
    • Slovakia: Ladislav Hluchý (leader), Ladislav Halada, Ján Glasa, Peter Weisenpacher, Viera Šipková, Peter Kurdel, Jolana Sebestyénová
  • EGI.eu:
    • Gergely Sipos

Resources

Details of the FDS application

Progress

Nov 2011 – proposal of VTP – based on discussions with Slovak Fire and Smoke simulation experts

Dec 2011 – G. Sipos created a wiki page https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/VT_Fire_Simulation and circulated the invitation to NILs

Jan 2012 – email communication with possible interested experts abroad the Slovakia

Feb 2012 - EVO meeting, February 17, 2012 Participants: egi.eu: Gergely Sipos Portugal: Luís Mário Ribeiro, António Pina Spain: Tomas Margalef, Ana Cortés Slovakia: Ladislav Hluchý, Ladislav Halada, Ján Glasa, Peter Weisenpacher, Peter Kurdel, Jolana Sebestyénová

After EVO meeting, based on partners experiences, we started to broaden the scope and goals of the VTP: Fire and smoke simulation using FDS Forest fire simulations FireSim FarSite FireStation

Re-specified VTP goals:

This Virtual Team aims to establish a Fire and smoke simulation Virtual Research Community on EGI and to specify requirements of Fire simulation applications towards EGI grid environment Acquired experiences may lead to future creation of a consortium aiming to apply for funded EU project.

Different kind of fire simulations will be considered, such as tunel fires, building fires, as well as other fire simulation applications tests for other types of fires, e.g. forest fires. Fire and smoke simulation can be a priority topic in the Mediterranean countries.