LoginThe aim of this paper is to propose a methodology using simulation to help optimising the design of passive buildings through a comfort approach.
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Techniques that improve solar reflectivity of urban surfaces to mitigate urban heat island phenomenon have become widespread with the use of highly- reflective paints (Kondo, 2008).
This paper reports on a research that aims at identifying acceptable window configurations that suit the requirements of hospital Intensive Care Units located in the desert.
This paper presents a methodology for optimizing skylight design with the considerations of thermal comfort, daylight availability and energy performance by integrated daylight and thermal simulation.
The present paper is concerned with the results of the numerical investigation of unsteady laminar, natural convection in an asymmetrically heated inclined open channel (i =0, 45, 60 and 75◦) with walls at uniform heat flux (qw = 10, 50, 75 and 100
This paper describes a prototype of a web-based 3D design and energy modeling platform called “Atmospheres”.
This paper introduces a new software developed for building performance optimization. MOBO is a generic freeware able to handle single and multi-objective optimization problems with continuous and discrete variables and constraint functions.
In France, non-residential buildings account for a sig-nificant part in energy consumption. Moreover, a large part of this consumption is due to Heating, Ventila-tion and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) systems, which are generally badly handled.
Many simulation software to predict thermal environment of buildings, such as temperature, humidity, heating and cooling load of building spaces, have been developed.
The development of solar district heating is experiencing a booming.
Heat demand management through demand shifting will be crucial to enable load balancing in a future electricity grid with large domestic heating loads.
Along with the outdoor climate, building design, materials and construction system determine the thermal behaviour of buildings, the ability to keep indoor comfort conditions and the energy consumption through their lifespan.
This paper discusses the use of a high-resolution code based on the discontinuous Galerkin method (DGM) for the direct numerical simulation (DNS) of natural convection flows in buildings.
Three versions (type 1, 2 and 3) of untypical climate data based on the Weather Year for Energy Calculations 2 (WYEC2) methodology were calculated.
The European standard EN 15251 specifies design criteria for dimensioning of building systems.
In the future building design must progress to a format where CO2 neutral societies are optimized as a whole and innovative technologies integrated. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the problems using a simplified design tool to simulat
Recent developments in material science offer the potential for energy harvesting electrochromic (EH-ECW) windows.