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Abstract
Fire is one of the greatest risks for every building and particularly for high-rise buildings. Usually, a building fire causes not only hazard to the occupants in a floor, but also a possible threat to the occupants in other floors and in particular to those located at upper storeys, with rising temperature and with killer smoke. Fire simulation can be performed using software packages designed for such a task. The fire simulation can often include aspects of hazard identification, fire growth and smoke movement, egress assessment, structural fire performance, sprinkler and fire detection system design, and smoke management system specification.The present thesis examines the up-to-date technologies available within the context of fire engineering simulation. This work gives an overview of available software packages that are used today in fire engineering simulation. It presents the procedure of fire simulation inside a high-rise building by using an advanced computer program named the Consolidated Model of Fire Growth and Smoke Transport ) CFAST for short. The CFAST program simulates fire action by calculating fire gases, the evolving distribution of smoke and temperature throughout a building during fire. This computer program is based on solving a set of equations that predict the state variables such as pressure and temperature. These equations are derived from the conservation equations for energy mass and the ideal gas law. It is important to know that the resulting errors, which might result, does not come from these equations, but rather they come from numerical analysis representation of the equations or from the simplifying assumption.