Re: FDS Validation

[Kevin McGrattan <kevin.mcgrattan@nist.gov>]

All,

I sent this request out about a month ago and we've gotten
fairly good response.
Thanks to all who have responded.
This is just a reminder to anyone who has published
(conference, masters/PhD thesis,
journal article) anything having to do with validating FDS
and have not sent it
in yet. We'd like to cite as much of the work as possible.

Send to 

emack@csefire.com
dcarpenter@csefire.com

Thanks

Kevin


> 
> All,
> 
> In recent years, many FDS users have asked for references to
> validation work. Up to
> now, we and others outside of NIST have published various
> reports and papers in
> journals and conference proceedings describing efforts to
> validate FDS, but there
> has been no effort to compile all the work into one easily
> accessible volume. Fortunately, with the support of the US
> Nuclear Regulatory Commission, we have contracted with
> Combustion Science and Engineering of Columbia, Maryland to
> expand
> our FDS Technical Reference Guide to include a comprehensive
> description of validation work performed to date. The
> contract was awarded via a competitive bidding process
> that took place over the last month. With the release of FDS
> version 4, the Technical
> Reference Guide will include sections on verification and
> validation.
> 
> We'd like to request that anyone who has done validation
> work with FDS, whether it
> be published or unpublished, whether it was sponsored by
> NIST or not, could you send
> the paper or report to Erin Mack (emack@csefire.com). This
> includes work done by
> students, especially if it was linked to a NIST grant. We
> have many of these reports
> here obviously, but it would save us some time if you could
> send a copy to Erin. That
> way your work will be given proper credit.
> 
> The time frame we have to work with is short. We hope to
> have this work completed in
> two months, so please send in the material now so that it
> can be cited.
> 

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Kevin McGrattan
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