Computer Application in Fire Protection Engineering

Paul R. DeCicco is Professor Emeritus at the Polytechnic University (New York) where he taught courses in Civil and Fire Protection Engineering and has served as Director of the Center for Fire Research.

• IntroductionCritical Review of Fire-Dedicated Thermal Structural Computer Programs P. J. E. Sullivan, M. J. Terro, and W. A. Morris Reliability and Computer Models Alan N. Beard The Potential of Expert Systems in Fire Safety Evaluation H. A. Donegan, and I. R. Taylor A Model of Instability and Flashover Alan Beard, Dougal Drysdale, Paul Holborn, and Steven Bishop Causal Probabilistic Networks with Learning: A Diagnosis Decisional Tool F. Casciati and L. Faravelli Limitations of Fire Models Alan N. Beard The Numerical Simulation of Fire Spread within a Compartment Using an Integrated Gas and Solid Phase Combustion Model F. Jia, E. R. Galea, and M. K. Patel Numerical Modeling of Radiative Heat Transfer in Integrated CFD Fire Modeling E. P. Keramida, N. N. Souris, A. G. Boudouvis, and N. C. Markatos