What does FDS mean in cars?

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VanElliot
07/30/25 1:24am
FDS in automotive manufacturing is often used for research on vehicle spontaneous combustion. Here are the relevant details: 1. Scenario-based simulation: FDS is a field simulation-based fire simulation software developed by the Building and Fire Research Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the United States, widely applied in the field of fire safety engineering. 2. Physical simulation: FDS is a model specifically developed for studying fire smoke propagation through computational fluid dynamics analysis programs. It can simulate the temperature, velocity of air, and smoke flow in three-dimensional space. Field simulation, also known as physical simulation, is a high-level complex simulation based on fundamental equations of mass, momentum, energy, and chemical reactions in the fire process.
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