fires tab select fire type

[drjfloyd]

I opened cedit and went to the fires tab. I clicked add fire three times. This generates three default fires. I then selected one of the fires by clicking its row from the table. If I go to the drop down box in the upper left middle Fire box and click the arrow I get a list of all the available fires; however, selecting one of the other fires doesn't do anything. This same behavior happens in the old GUI. My initial impression based on the Guide description was this was a way to copy the information for a fire already being used in the simulation. I suggest either having this drop down do something or get rid of it.

[rmcdermo]

Try PR #2502 .

[rmcdermo]

The intent was to fix the behavior of the dropdown so that one fire can use the hrr curve of another and put it in a different location. I tested on writing out the input file and it looked like it worked.

[drjfloyd]

I opened cedit. Added a second comparment. Went to the fire tab and added three fires. I set fires 2 and 3 to be in compartment 2. I went to fire in in compartment 1 and edited the HRR to be 0,1000,200 rather than 0,1000,0. I then selected fire 3 and in the drop down box picked fire 1. It did load the fire 1 data. I wrote the input file. In the input file it does correctly show that Fire_3 is using Fire_1_Fire; however, in the CHEM and TABL data it has written out the Fire_3_Fire that was automatically generated when I added the third fire but is not actually being used in the input.

[mcgratta]

I can reproduce the error. But I don't know how it should function. Seems to me that "Referenced Fire Properties ID" should refer only to the chemistry and not the HRR table. In other words, you want your Fire 3 to have the same fuel type as Fire 1, but not necessarily the same HRR curve. Is that your interpretation?

BTW, I think we should change the headings such that the lower left box is entitled "Fuel" or "Chemistry". That would make it more clear if you are invoking another fire's fuel properties, not its HRR curve.