Fire and Engineering Simulation

Smoke control systems can be either mechanical (active) or passive systems. Our staff are experts in the use of hand calculations, zone models (Contam), and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling. These tools are used for the evaluation of smoke movement and the design of smoke control systems to provide a tenable environment for building occupants to safely egress.The team works with the design team’s mechanical, electrical, and fire alarm contractors to ensure that the requirements of the smoke control system are properly implemented. This coordination ensures a fully integrated smoke control system that can be successfully installed and commissioned.

Piimax Engineers uses Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) for simulating fire behavior and predicting flow dynamics in complex environments, providing valuable insights for fire protection design and analysis.

Piimax Engineers uses computational modeling tools under the guidance of NFPA 130 and 502 to model spread of fire and movement of smoke and conducts an analysis of how fires are likely to develop and spread in tunnels hence helping fire engineers design effective fire protection measures.

Piimax engineers utilizes agent-based modeling or crowd simulation techniques to assess and optimize people’s movement strategies hence assisting the design team design effective evacuation plans, evaluate emergency egress routes, and ensure the safe evacuation of occupants. Our engineers can model the movement of occupants in buildings, transportation hubs, stadiums, or other crowded spaces during a fire emergency. This includes factors such as human behavior, demographics, mobility limitations, and response to fire alarms, which can impact the flow of people during an evacuation.

We can model the movement of smoke plumes, the effects of buoyancy, temperature, and pressure differences, and the interaction with ventilation systems. This allows for a detailed analysis of how smoke is likely to behave in an atrium during a fire, helping our engineers design smoke control systems that are capable of effectively managing smoke movement.

Our engineers are trained to use ANSYS Fluent for simulating fluid flow, multi-phase flow, heat transfer, and related phenomena.