Background Review of Fire Simulation. Mitler (1991) divides fire models into two basic
categories: deterministic and stochastic models. Deterministic models are further divided
into zone models, field models, hybrid zone/field models, and network models. For purposes
of practicality and space limitations, we limit the following discussions to deterministic
models, specifically zone type fire models. Mitler goes on to prescribe that any good fire
model must describe convective heat and mass transfer, radiative heat transfer, ignition …