Large Scale Numerical Simulation of Structures in Fire
Blaze is a finite element method solver built specifically for analysing structural performance in fire. It has been designed from the start to utilise high performance computing infrastructure so that it can be used for very large scale models. Blaze is currently under development, and we are eager to hear from you.
The Blaze Philosophy
About
Blaze is currently under development at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Queensland. I am Anwar Orabi, the lead developer on this project. I am a lecturer in Fire Safety Engineering at the University of Queensland. Blaze emerged from the bottlenecks I faced in my own research, and is an important part of my vision for our research field.
For this project to be a real success, however, I need your input and your feedback. Use the box below to send me a message with any ideas that are important to you and your research, and that you think Blaze should be able to help you with. You can also use this form to subscribe to updates on the status of Blaze and how far away it is from becoming publicly available for you to try.
Community-based
Emerging from the needs of the community, Blaze is specifically designed to address the kind and scale of problems that the structural fire research community deals with. From its interface to its documentation and its philosophy aim to make Blaze easy for fledgling researchers to pick up and make a big impact. Get in touch if you have ideas or suggestions you think Blaze should implement.
Documentation-rich
The philosophy of Blaze stresses that documentation is just as important as code. This means that implementation documentation and technical and mathematical details are coupled as part of any Blaze class developed. The documentation uses Doxygen for automating this process and embedding documentation within the source code.
HPC-focused
In its classical sense, Moores' law has significantly slowed down as the processing power of individual processing units has stagnated. What continues to grow is the number of these units that we are able to couple together. Blaze focuses on best-utilising these distributed compute systems to realise numerical simulations that would not otherwise be possible today or in future.