Large Scale Software Transitions: A Case Study of the First Half of MFIRE
Lingjiang Cheng · 2000
This paper presents a case study of large scale software transitions. This is the first part our virtual reality of mine ventilation systems project. This project is based on an existing software package called MFIRE. "MFIRE is a computer simulation program that performs normal ventilation network planning calculations and dynamic transient state simulation of ventilation networks under a variety of conditions. The program is useful for the analysis of ventilation networks under thermal and mechanical influence. MFIRE simulates a mine's ventilation system and its response to altered ventilation parameters: external influences such as temperatures, and internal influences such as fires. "[16] MFIRE was written in FORTRAN. Modern virtual reality software and utilities are typically written in C++, an object orientated programming language. Since communication between C++ and FORTRAN is difficult and the ability to modify the code is vital, we needed to convert the existing FORTRAN code ...