[10 UPS internal] Greetings Rhino enthusiasts! Excited to introduce my UPS (or APU) noise-reduction box. Here’s the magic: a maze design for effective noise trapping coupled with a natural convection cooling strategy. The bottom cool air inlet and top hot air outlet capitalize on the principles o…

Hi Alan, I’m curious, is there any science behind this design? From what I can remember of noise attenuation from half a century ago (and I recognise that is plenty of time for things to move on!) I wonder about these considerations: Hard surfaces are bad because sound bounces off them. Noise red…

Hello Jeremy, Thank you for taking the time to engage with my design. Your questions and insights are invaluable, and I’m excited to discuss the science behind my UPS noise-reduction box. Mass Blocking and Mass-Loaded Barriers: One of the primary principles of soundproofing is the idea that mass…

[image] Soaring Stars lab: leveraging the labyrinthine nature of the maze and the principles of a muffler to effectively attenuate noise Alan, Thank you for your kind comments. They embolden me to further speculation. It seems to me that a muffler is fundamentally different, in that gases ar…

[image] Jeremy: will turbulence slow it too much, allowing the UPS to overheat? I speculate that we’ll be operating within a low Reynolds number regime with no laminar flow. Airflow out from the UPS itself is inherently very turbulent, low Ncrit value. Indeed, the dynamics of a muffler deali…

As a Grasshopper beginner, I was able to reproduce it! All was done from scratch using useful input parameters. [image] I was also able to put all the wood panels on a plane. And using OpenNest to cut them. [image] But I’m struggling to get the outline perimeter curves and feeding the Nest. …

Why Curves? Could you just pack your Breps? OpenNest would not read the Box so I fed the output boxes into a Brep Component to Convert them to Breps. [Canvas at 09;13;26] [ViewCapture20230916_091229]

I love working with this tools and this community, Thx U @Ryan14 ! [image] Grasshopper file Vr1 BoxCreation.gh (57.8 KB)

This is very cool Alan! is this for a PC workstation? or what kind of equipment t do you have in mind? G

[image] Gustavo Fontana: what kind of equipment t do you have in mind? This box is designed to encase auxiliary power units, loud industrial equipment with small fans, servers, UPS units, or PCs located in a quiet room. Different materials vary in their effectiveness at reducing specific fre…

Noise-Reduction Box: Natural Convection Maze Designs for Sound Dampening

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I love working with this tools and this community,
Thx U @Ryan14 !

Grasshopper file Vr1
BoxCreation.gh (57.8 KB)

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Noise-Reduction Box: Natural Convection Maze Designs for Sound Dampening

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