Demos
Browser-runnable taster simulations drawn directly from the lab's research.
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Wind in urban terrainPlace rectangular buildings on a top-down city plan, rotate the wind direction, and watch the particle field show channelling, wakes, and stagnation zones. -
Surface energy balance, face by faceHow uDALES resolves the energy budget on every roof, wall and pavement in an urban block — and how we read those outputs with the udbase Python tools. -
How urban surfaces respond to a diurnal cycleA 1D surface energy balance running live in the browser — pick a material, change the forcing, watch the heat wave penetrate the wall. -
Rayleigh–Bénard convection — patterns from heatHeat the bottom of a fluid layer, cool the top, and watch patterns emerge. Adjust the Rayleigh number to walk from conduction through cells to soft turbulence. -
Gravity currents — the lock-release experimentPour something dense into something lighter and it doesn't sit still — it races along the bottom in a head-and-tail structure with a remarkably steady speed. Compare the simulated current with a two-layer shallow-water prediction. -
Patterns from chaos — symmetric fractalsA simple complex map iterated millions of times produces intricate, symmetry-respecting patterns — a small window onto the kind of scale-invariant structure that pervades turbulent flows.