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Inconsistent units in user's guide #13

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Dear Sir/Madam,

I have a question about the output results from CFAST, in the help topic, it 
says the unit of 
temperature is in Kelvin.  Is this correct?  Because I have a fire give me an 
upper layer temperature 
of 225 (unit), and the flux in ambient target is 1.95kW/m2.  If the temperature 
is in Kelvin, then I 
wouldn't expect to have such a high heat flux on the ambient target.  I also 
noted that in the upper 
layer temperature of the RunModel window, the unit used is in Celsius.
Would you please clarify this.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by cfastdev@gmail.com on 29 Nov 2007 at 6:11

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
The direct inputs to the model are in Kelvin.  However, the GUI input editor 
can display units of the user's choice.   
For temperature, the default is Celsius.  The printed output of the model (in 
the .out file) is always in Celsius.  
The user's guide has been corrected for the upcoming release to correct the 
error for both the normal output 
spreadsheet and the target and wall surface spreadsheet and note the output 
units as celsius.

Original comment by cfastdev@gmail.com on 15 Apr 2008 at 2:06