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Manuals

• FDS Technical Reference Guide (Version 4 03/2006)(684 KB) - This report documents the theoretical development of the equations used by FDS to model fire driven fluid flow.
• FDS User's Guide (Version 4 03/2006) (1.5 MB) - This report documents how to setup, run and visualize FDS model runs.
• Smokeview User's Guide (Version 4 03/2006) (2.5 MB) - This report documents how to use Smokeview, software for visualizing FDS results.

Notes

• FDS/Smokeview examples (13 MB) - Collection of 150+ FDS/Smokeview examples demonstrating how the software is being used. Requires Adobe Acrobat 7.0 or later.

• A one page handout (620 KB) summarizing major features of Smokeview

• A slide presentation (2.8 MB) describing the numerical solution of the partial differential equations used in FDS.

• A two page handout (340KB) describing the DXF2FDS converter utility

Frequently Asked Questions

• FDS FAQs
• Smokeview FAQs

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