. >> when they did some tests, when the hsc did some tests on the ceiling paint, some of it was not damaged, they couldn't make the flames spread fast enough along it. and that's when they started to question what else could be the main fuel. that's when they came to talk to us to see if we could do anything to help. >> what do you think of these results? >> investigators now turn to a team of forensic mathematicians at the investigative firm of cfx. their goal was to create a computer simulation of the deadly fire using computation fluid dynamics, or cfd. this was the first time it would be applied to the behavior of fire, but they believed it would work because heat and air flow like fluids. >> the hot air causes the fluid to expand, and it makes it lighter, and then it tends to rise relative to the other ambient fluid around. and so, then you see smoke rising, smoke plumes, and that's the kind of thing that we can simulate with the software, because it really is just simple fluid mechanics. >> but could it solve the mystery of the king's cross fire? ♪ turn around ♪ every now and then i g