• ALOFT — A Large Outdoor Fire plume Trajectory model;
• AST — Adiabatic Surface Temperature;
• ASTM — American Society for Testing and Materials;
• ATF — Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives;
• BRE — British Research Establishment;
• CAROLFIRE — Cable Response to Live Fire Test Program;
• CFAST — Consolidated Model of Fire Growth and Smoke Transport;
• CHRISTIFIRE — Cable Heat Release, Ignition, and Spread in Fire Test Program;
• CFT — Critical Flame Temperature;
• DNS — Direct Numerical Simulation;
• FAA — Federal Aviation Administration;
• FDS — Fire Dynamics Simulator;
• FLAME — Fire Laboratory for Accreditation of Models by Experimentation;
• FM — Factory Mutual Global;
• FSE — Full-Scale Enclosure;
• HAI — Hughes Associates, Inc.;
• HDPE — high density polyethylene;
• HGL — Hot Gas Layer;
• HIPS — high-impact polystyrene;
• HRR — Heat Release Rate;
• ISO — International Standards Organization;
• LEMTA — Laboratoire d’Energétique et de Méchanique Théorique et Appliquée;
• LES — Large Eddy Simulation;
• LLNL — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory;
• LNG — Liquified Natural Gas;
• MEC — Minimum Extinguishing Concentration;
• NBS — National Bureau of Standards (former name of NIST);
• NFPRF — National Fire Protection Research Foundation;
• NIST — National Institute of Standards and Technology;
• NRC — Nuclear Regulatory Commission;
• NRCC — National Research Council of Canada;
• NRL — Naval Research Laboratory;
• PDPA — Phase Doppler Particle Analyzer;
• PIV — Particle Image Velocimetry;
• PMMA — poly(methyl methacrylate);
• PRISME — Propagation d’un incendie pour des scénarios multi-locaux élémentaires;
• PVC — Polyvinyl chloride.