Mangesh Basarkar
Research Engineer
Buildings

Phone:	(321) 638-1417
Fax:	(321) 638-1010
Email:	mbasarkar@fsec.ucf.edu

Education:

M.S., Mechanical Engineering
Syracuse University, NY, 2003

B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Pune University, India, 2000

Research Focus:

Mangesh Basarkar is a Research Engineer in the Buildings Research Division at the Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC). He has a strong background in Heat and Mass Transfer and Fluid Dynamics. His areas of interest include numerical methods of analysis, development and use of building simulation software and indoor air quality. He has more than three years of hands on experience using building simulation and analysis software as well as commercial CFD software. His primary focus during his Masters' thesis was on establishing a methodology to allow for export of 3-dimensional CAD building files as input for multi-zone building analysis software. This was achieved using IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) standards created for interoperability in the building and construction industry and are part of the ISO 10303 standards for product data representation and exchange. He also has working knowledge of CAD tools like ArchiCAD and AutoCAD, and is skilled in software development with experience in using object oriented programming languages.

In his current assignments, Mangesh Basarkar is the co-Principal Investigator for FSEC tasks in the IBTK (Immune Building Tool Kit) program being developed by the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren (NSWCDD) for DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). The task is to develop a software tool using state of the art design and development platforms that will be able to translate IFC complaint 3D building CAD files as input to the multi-zone building airflow and contaminant transport analysis program CONTAM. As part of his other assignments, Mangesh Basarkar is also a key member of the team that use the CFD software FLUENT for thermal analysis of the liquid hydrogen tank located near the shuttle launch pads in the Kennedy Space Center of NASA. He created and meshed 3D models of the tank and its internal geometry to run simulations and use the results to analyze strategies to prevent and/or reduce the 'boil-off' of the liquid hydrogen due to poor insulation performance. The losses due to boil-off are estimated to be in hundreds of thousands of dollars every year. In his earlier assignments at FSEC, he has also tested a new module that added Air Distribution System (ADS) capabilities to the EnergyPlus program. EnergyPlus is a DOE program for modeling building heating, cooling, lighting, ventilation and other energy flows.