FEMTC 2018
The 4th Fire and Evacuation Modeling Technical Conference was held on October 1-3, 2018 in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Dates: October 1-3, 2018
Location: Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
Day: 1
01★ - A Simple Two-Step Reaction Scheme For Soot And CO Prediction In FDS
Kevin McGrattan - National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
02 - Direct Calculation of Ellipse Overlap Areas for Force Based Models of Pedestrian Dynamics
Gary Hughes - California Polytechnic State University
03 - The Impact of Stairwell Queues on Egress Time From a Floor
Cristpher Campbell - Arup
04 - SCARC is Ready For Use in FDS
Susanne Kilian - hhpberlin
05 - Variability of Behavioural Parameters in Egress Simulations of Stadiums
Danielle Aucoin - York University
06 - Validation Of CFD Simulation Model Of French Balcony Façade Fire Test With Parapet Glass
Csaba Szikra, Lajos Takacs - Budapest University of Technology and Economics
07 - Thunderhead Engineering R&D Review
Brian Hardeman - Thunderhead Engineering
08 - Modeling Crowd Movement in Large Scale Events, the Case of Storico Carnevale Di Ivrea
Elena Caccherano, Paper by Rugiada Scozzari - CANTENE s.r.l.
09 - How to Validate Solutions from Simluex
Brian Thompson - AEGIS Engineering, PLLC
10 - Simulating Real-Time Fire for Firefighting Training
Christian Niemand - University of Kassel
11 - Acceptance Criteria in Fire Safety Engineering: A Review and Case Study
Daniel Rosberg - WSP Brand & Risk
12 - Fire Investigation in Italian Waste Treatment Plant: Lessons Learned and Future Development
Alfredo Romano - TRR S.R.L.
13 - Evacuation Analysis in Nursery Schools: Challenges of Parameterizing the Behavior of Children
Jan Lyzwa - Technische Universität Braunschweig
Day: 2
01 - The Unintended Consequences of Ignoring Evacuee Response
S.M.V. Gwynne - Movement Strategies
02 - Setting Wildfire Evacuation Triggers by Coupling Fire and Traffic Simulation Models: A Spatiotemporal GIS Approach
Dapeng Li - South Dakota State University
03 - Efficiency Of the Fire Safety System, Based on Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS)
Wilson Nobre Lima - University of Cape Verde
04 - Natural Ventilation of a Short Road Tunnel
Katie McQuade-Jones - WSP USA
05 - Bridging the Pre-Movement and Movement Data Gap through Non-FPE Studies
Mohammed A. Saeefan - Saudi Arabian Oil Company
06 - Generalized Collision-free Velocity Model for Pedestrian Dynamics
Qiancheng Xu - Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH and University of Wuppertal
07 - Development of 3D Heat Transfer and Pyrolysis in FDS
Randall McDermott - NIST
08 - Agent-Based Modeling of Meta-Communication with Assisted People During Emergency Egress
Alberto Tinaburri - Ministry of the Interior, Italy and University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
09 - Performance-Based Design of the Smoke Management System for the Lausanne University Library
Eric Tonicello - ISI Sàrl, Lausanne (CH)
10 - Estimating the Probability of Fatalities in Long Tunnels with FDS and 1D Human Behavior
Oriol Rios - CERN
11 - Effect and Appropriate Use of TIME_SHRINK_FACTOR in FDS
Rosalie Wills - Koffel Associates, Inc.
12 - Validating FDS Against a Full-Scale Fire Test
Paul Blake - University of Leeds
Day: 3
01 - How to Model Complex Behavior Using Simple Control Functions
Jason Floyd - JENSEN HUGHES
02 - Simulation of Complex Geometry in FDS
Marcos Vanella - University of Maryland, College Park and NIST
03 - Visualizing Smoke and Fire
Glenn Forney - NIST
04 - SFPE Research Roadmap and New Projects
Chris Jelenewicz - SFPE
