Welcome to the Virtual Discussion Forum for the MaCFP Working group

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The MaCFP Working Group is intended as an open, community-wide, international collaboration between fire scientists (both experimentalists and modelers). MaCFP has two subgroups, focused on developing a fundamental understanding of condensed- and gas-phase fire phenomena in order to advance predictive fire modeling.

The MaCFP homepage is: https://iafss.org/macfp/. This page provides a summary and additional links to information on both the Condensed- and Gas-Phase Working groups, including: background, objectives, guidelines for participation, and summaries of previous workshops.

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Condensed Phase

All experimental measurements submitted as part of the MaCFP Condensed Phase Workshops are available here: https://github.com/MaCFP/matl-db

The specific objectives of the subgroup are to:

Develop standard data set formats for experimental data on pyrolysis;
Develop requirements for data set quality and establishing a data review committee;
Incorporate compliant data into the existing MaCFP data repository;
Create a database of pyrolysis property sets;
Develop minimum requirements for numerical pyrolysis models;
Organize a pyrolysis modeling discussion group.

Gas Phase

All experimental measurements submitted as part of the MaCFP Gas Phase Workshops are available here: https://github.com/MaCFP/macfp-db

The specific objectives of the subgroup are to:

Develop a digital archive of well-documented fire experiments that can be used as targets for CFD model validation;
Develop a digital archive of well-documented CFD-based numerical simulations corresponding to the selected target experiments;
Develop protocols for detailed comparisons between computational results and experimental measurements;
Identify key research topics and knowledge gaps in computational and experimental fire research;
Develop best practices in both computational and experimental fire research (including quality control and quantification of uncertainties);
Establish a network between fire researchers and provide a community-wide forum for discussion and exchange of information.

Workshop Video and Presentations

Morgan Bruns