Gpyro - Generalized Pyrolysis Model for Combustible Solids

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Gpyro - Generalized Pyrolysis Model for Combustible Solids

Gpyro is an open source computer model that describes the thermal response of solid materials exposed to radiative or convective heating, including thermo-oxidative pyrolysis of the condensed phase.

Gpyro can be used for 0D, 1D, 2D, and 3D simulations and can write NIST Smokeview files for visualization of 2D simulations. Gpyro contains the physics necessary to simulate pyrolysis of thermoplastic and charring solids, intumescent coatings, and smolder in porous media. It can be applied as a boundary condition in a modified version of FDS6 (disclaimer: Gpyro and its linking to FDS is in no way supported by or developed by NIST or VTT). Coupled to Gpyro is a material property estimation program that can be used to help estimate the required material properties from experimental data (Cone Calorimeter or similar, thermogravimetric analysis, and differential scanning calorimetry). At the present time, brute force search, genetic algorithm optimization, genetic algorithm/simulated annealing, stochastic hillclimber, and shuffled complex evolution optimization methods are available.

To download the latest version of Gpyro, after installing Subversion, type:

svn checkout svn://reaxengineering.com/gpyro

A SVN user interface such as SmartSVN can also be used to access the code repository.

Documentation

Although a Users' Guide and Technical Reference have been prepared and are available by SVN checkout, these documents are woefully out of sync with the current code in the repository. The developer is in the process of preparing updated documentation, but this is a side project that only gets worked on in his spare time. Comments/suggestions/help in this area would be appreciated. The user may also find some of the publications in the References section below useful.

Bug reports and feature/enhancement requests

To report a bug or request a feature enhancement, please use the ticket system built into Trac. After first creating an account, click on "New Ticket" and provide as much information about your problem or feature request as possible. Include input files if appropriate. To allow for better ticket tracking, if you are reporting multiple issues please submit one issue per ticket.

Sponsorship and disclaimer

Gpyro was originally developed at UC Berkeley under NASA sponsorship as part of the Forced Ignition and Spread Test (FIST) project and a Graduate Student Researcher Program (GSRP) extension to FIST and later under NSF Award 0730556, "Tackling CFD Modeling of Flame Spread on Practical Solid Combustibles". Some of the theory, applications, verification, and validation of Gpyro, its predecessors, the material property estimation algorithm, and linking to FDS is scattered over several publications listed in the References section below.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0730556. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Note on commercial use

Gpyro is open source, public domain software. It may be used by anyone for any purpose subject to the Open Source Initiative/MIT License.

References

1. Lautenberger, C., Zhou, Y.Y. and Fernandez-Pello, A.C., "Numerical Modeling of Convective Effects on Piloted Ignition of Composite Materials," Combustion Science and Technology 177 1231-1252 (2005).

2. Lautenberger, C., Rein, G. and Fernandez-Pello, A.C., "The Application of a Genetic Algorithm to Estimate Material Properties for Fire Modeling from Bench-Scale Fire Test Data," Fire Safety Journal 41 204-214 (2006).

3. Rein, G., Lautenberger, C., Fernandez-Pello, A.C., Torero, J.L. and Urban, D.L., "Application of Genetic Algorithms and Thermogravimetry to Determine the Kinetics of Polyurethane Foam in Smoldering Combustion," Combustion and Flame 146 95-108 (2006).

4. Lautenberger, C., McAllister, S., Rich, D., and Fernandez-Pello, C., "Modeling the Effect of Environmental Variables on Opposed-Flow Flame Spread Rates with FDS," International Congress on Fire Safety in Tall Buildings, Santander, Spain, October 2006.

5. Lautenberger, C., McAllister, S, Rich, D., and Fernandez-Pello, C., "Effect of Environmental Variables on Flame Spread Rates in Microgravity," 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 2007, AIAA Paper 2007-383.

6. Lautenberger, C. and Fernandez-Pello, C., "A Generalized Pyrolysis Model for Combustible Solids," Fifth International Seminar on Fire and Explosion Hazards, Edinburgh, UK, April 2007.

7. Lautenberger, C., "A Generalized Pyrolysis Model for Combustible Solids," Ph.D Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Fall 2007. ​http://reaxengineering.com/media/docs/lautenberger_dissertation.pdf

8. Lautenberger, C. & Fernandez-Pello, A.C., "Modeling Ignition of Combustible Fuel Beds by Embers and Heated Particles," Forest Fires 2008 (2008).

9. Lautenberger, C., Kim, E., Dembsey, N. & Fernandez-Pello, C., "The Role of Decomposition Kinetics in Pyrolysis Modeling – Application to a Fire Retardant Polyester Composite," Fire Safety Science 9: 1201-1212 (2008).

10. Lautenberger, C. & Fernandez-Pello, A.C., "Generalized Pyrolysis Model for Combustible Solids," Fire Safety Journal 44 819-839 (2009).

11. Lautenberger, C. & Fernandez-Pello, A.C., “A Model for the Oxidative Pyrolysis of Wood,” Combustion and Flame 156 1503-1513 (2009).

12. Dodd, A.B., Lautenberger, C., and Fernandez-Pello, A.C., "Numerical Examination of Two-Dimensional Smolder Structure in Polyurethane Foam," Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 32: 2497-2504 (2009).

13. Lautenberger, C. & Fernandez-Pello, C., "Optimization Algorithms for Material Pyrolysis Property Estimation," Fire Safety Science 10 751-764 (2011).

14. Dodd, A.B., Lautenberger, C., & Fernandez-Pello, A.C., "Computational Modeling of Smolder Combustion and Spontaneous Transition to Flaming," Combustion and Flame 159 448–461 (2012).

15. Lautenberger, C., "Gpyro3D: A Three Dimensional Generalized Pyrolysis Model," to appear in Fire Safety Science 11 (2014).