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Why We are Different

The Breathe Lab forms part of the 3dgeoinformation chair (3d.bk.tudelft.nl) and collaborates with the Indoor Environment chair at the faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment. As such, we work with a diverse group of experts in 3D city model reconstruction and comfort and health in buildings.

Our approach focuses in open-science, creating reproducible publications, sharing our simulations and measurement data publicly and developing open-source software. Our expertise in CFD combined with the expertise in Indoor Environments and Geoinformation empowers our group to build the next generation of automatic tools for urban flow predictions.

Why Choose Us

Large fluid dynamics and geoinformation experience in the urban environment, experts dedicated to the impact of urban advancements in people's comfort.

What You Get

To work within a group of international and interdisciplinary people that work in developing open-source tools and performing simulations freely accessible that empower others.

Where Are We

We work at the intersection of different chairs within the faculty of Architecture and the Build Environment. We also collaborate with other faculties in TUDelft, such as Civil Engineering.

MEET THE TEAM

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Álvaro Manzano Sevillano

Guest PhD student

Dispersion of pollutants in urban environments with CFD for the cities of Madrid and Bristol. Álvaro is part of the project MODELAIR (https://modelair.eu/).

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Miguel Martin

Research fellow (Marie Curie postdoctoral research fellow)

Smart City Innovations and Experiments using New Climate and Energy Simulations (SCIENCES).

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Akshay Patil

Research fellow

My research vision at the Breathe Lab is to leverage the geoinformatics expertise and better understand the flow (turbulence) physics within the urban and natural environment. As part of the REFMAP project, my primary responsibility is to develop a multi-fidelity computational fluid dynamics framework to better quantify the uncertainty in urban flow predictions.

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Arghyanir Giri

PhD Student

Quantifying airborne transmission and ventilation. His work is a collaboration with the Indoor Environment chair lead by Philomena Bluyssen.

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Nadine Hobeika

PhD Student

Data-driven design tool for healthy indoor environments: Nadine's work focuses in exploring computational fluid dynamics approaches to improve current indoor designs towards healthier ventilation set-ups. Her work is at the intersection of two different chairs, 3dgeoinformation from Jantien Stoter and the Indoor Environment, lead by Philomena Bluyssen.

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Ivan Pađen

PhD Student

Automatic reconstruction of 3D city models tailored to urban flow simulations: Ivan's aim is to ease the life of everyone simulating wind flow, dispersion, or heat transfer in an urban area by shortening the time necessary for geometry preparation and simulation setup.

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Clara García-Sánchez

Assistant Professor

Linking Computational Fluid Dynamics with the geoinformation and architecture world: Clara García-Sánchez joined the 3D geoinformation group as an Assistant Professor (tenure track), after receiving the Delft Technology Fellowship in 2019. Her research is focused on wind engineering problems, specifically addressing dispersion and airflow predictions in the built environment.

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