Nozzle patterns and cooling effects

The system differentiates between 3 distinct nozzle patterns; straight stream, narrow fog, and wide fog. This represents their practical firefighting impact, including:

• Reach and penetration
• Cooling effectiveness
• Influence on fire knockdown

Nozzle pattern is treated as a continuous control (jet through to fog), influencing spray angle, distribution, and application geometry, determining where and how effectively suppressant is delivered.

Steam generation is represented via configurable parameters (e.g. steam volume scaling) and contributes to cooling and visual feedback. Detailed thermodynamic processes (such as explicit droplet evaporation, latent heat absorption, or oxygen displacement) are not individually parameterised, but their operational outcomes are represented at a behavioural level.