期刊名称：International Journal of Asia Digital Art and Design Association
电子版ISSN：1738-8074
出版年度：2018
卷号：22
期号：2
页码：47-55
DOI：10.20668/adada.22.2_47
语种：English
出版社：アジアデジタルアートアンドデザイン学会
摘要：Technology has been increasingly implemented as an effective tool to help improve student’s ability to comprehend theirenvironment, develop design solutions and estimate the appropriateness of their proposed designs. Through simulations, thestudents can visualize the performance of their design and anticipate unexpected complications. Technologies have also beenproven as a useful tool to help higher education student’s grasp disaster situations outbreak and their consequences. Amongthe field of disaster mitigation and prevention, the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) has been described as an adequate toolto simulate flame spread rate during fire outbreaks, as well as smoke flow. However, this tool is not considered accessibleto students because of its elaborated features that can be challenging to understand and time-consuming to render. TheEDISON Platform, a hub that provides accessible simulation solutions for students free of charge, was used as the host tocreate the Graphical User Interface (GUI) FDS Module. The proposal implemented a GUI for the FDS tool, facilitating thesimulation process while addressing three main challenges for students to access the existing version of FDS. The currentFDS version requires programming logic understanding from the users. For example, the construction of the FDS files isbased on Namelists and Command Line Interface (CLI) is used to render the model. Furthermore, three differentenvironments are needed to complete each simulation. In the suggested GUI FDS Module, all the procedures required forsimulation completion can be done within one environment and no programming knowledge is necessary. Secondly, sincethe GUI FDS Module runs the simulation on the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI)supercomputer, the simulation is expected to be done faster than if rendered using the student’s personal computer. Finally,even though the current version of FDS is downloadable without any charge, it is common that users find the FDSexcessively complicated and select one of the available commercial GUI versions of FDS when doing fire assessment andresearch. The proposed GUI FDS Module will provide an FDS GUI option free of charge and open to the community,focused on higher degree students.
