Interior of Bradbury Building, Downtwon LA simulated in a CFD(Computational Fluid Dynamics) model

This simulation involved a study of atrium spaces with respect to temperature stratification and its impacts on building loads, natural and forced ventilation strategies and was modelled with the help of a software called PHOENICS, which was caliberated against onsite data collected with stowaway temperature data loggers in the Bradbury building. (Amitabh Barthakur, Spring 1996)

Shown here are screenshots from a building geometry input module developed at the MBS lab. The uniques feature of this module was that the data once input could be used as base data for a range of simulation software.

Shading Analysis using Shading Analyser

Shading Analyser, a program developed in the MBS lab by Anish Tripathi is useful for analysing shadows cast by the surroundings on a site. The program uses the sun path diagram to create a shading mask.

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Investigative studies into Heat gain through a West wall window with use of fins/overhangs in varying proportions using Solar 5.5

Heat Gain Studies

Ligthing Simulation

Simulation of light rendering using Wavefront - an IRIX- Unix based software (Archit Jain, 1996)