Building and Fire Research Laboratory

JET

Sponsor

System Requirements

JET runs in Windows 95/98 or Windows NT Workstation 4.0 or later. A 486DX/66 MHz or higher processor (Pentium166-MHz or higher is recommended) pr amu Alpha processor running Windows NT workstation is required. A minimum of 32 MB of RAM, a VGA or higher-resolution screen supported by Windows and a mouse are required.

Downloading the Software

To install Jet, download the setup file jetsetup.exe, double-click on it and follow the directions.

Jet's setup program has been made smaller. The underlying program however is still the version built on 10/13/1999.

Once the setup package has finished, you should have a folder c:\jet with the necessary files to run jet. To run jet, either double click on the program jet.exe or use the run selection of the Windows start menu and type c:\jet\jet. If you have a problem with jet, please report it to william.davis@nist.gov.

Users Manual

The users manual is available as NISTIR 6324. The manual contains an overview of the physics in JET, a description of the user interface for JET, the output for the default case in JET and a comparison of JET predictions with experiments.

Supporting Publications

Publications which support JET or provide insight into the problems associated with detecting fires in structures include:

1. Davis, W. D., Notarianni, K. A., and Tapper, P. Z., An Algorithm for Calculating the Plume Centerline Temperature and Ceiling Jet Temperature in the Presence of a Hot Upper Layer. NISTIR 6178,

2. Davis, W. D., and Notarianni, K. A., Prediction Based Design of Fire Detection for Buildings with Ceiling Heights Between 9 m and 18 m. NISTIR 6199,

3. Davis, W. D., and Notarianni, K. A., NASA Fire Detector Study. NISTIR 7598.

4. Davis, W. D., Forney, G. P., and Bukowski, R. W., Field Modeling: Simulating the Effect of Sloped Beamed Ceilings on Detector and Sprinkler Response. Available from the National Fire Protection Research Foundation.