CFAST Insights

What is CFAST?

CFAST (Consolidated Fire and Smoke Transport) is a two-zone fire model developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). It predicts the environment in a multi-compartment structure subjected to a fire. It is commonly used for fire reconstruction, fire hazard analysis, and to predict detector/suppression system response.

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What other technologies are related to CFAST?

CFAST Competitor Technologies

FDS

FDS (Fire Dynamics Simulator) is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model for fire-driven fluid flow. It is a direct competitor to CFAST as it simulates fire behavior, smoke movement, and heat transfer.

mentioned alongside CFAST in 11% (157) of relevant job posts

CFAST Complementary Technologies

Pathfinder

Pathfinder is an evacuation simulator. While it doesn't model fire behavior like CFAST, it uses the results from fire models like CFAST to simulate occupant movement and egress during a fire. Thus it is complementary.

mentioned alongside CFAST in 6% (61) of relevant job posts