- written by world leading experts in the field
- contains many worked-out examples, taken from daily life fire related practical problems
- covers the entire range from basics up to state-of-the-art computer simulations of fire and smoke related fluid mechanics aspects, including the effect of water
- provides extensive treatment of the interaction of water sprays with a fire-driven flow
- contains a chapter on CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics), the increasingly popular calculation method in the field of fire safety science