LoginThis paper demonstrates a reproducible methodology for calibrating detailed energy models using hourly measured data that has been applied to evaluation of a large naturally ventilated university building.
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The contribution focuses on the simulate-based design and optimization of photovoltaic (PV)-driven cooling systems for residential buildings in hot and dry countries.
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.
This paper describes the development of a technique for extrapolation of dynamic daylighting simulations from a limited number of high dynamic range photographs.
Heat demand management through demand shifting will be crucial to enable load balancing in a future electricity grid with large domestic heating loads.
This paper presents a method to analyse the impact of current refurbishment settings. Performance indicators are computed through multiple physical simulations.
The computational cost for the repeated evaluation of zonal-type building simulation models can be pro-hibitive especially in contexts, such as Building Opti-mization and Control Design, where repeated evalua-tion of the models — for different ini
This paper describes a prototype of a web-based 3D design and energy modeling platform called “Atmospheres”.
Recent developments in material science offer the potential for energy harvesting electrochromic (EH-ECW) windows.
An urban microclimate model including air flow, heat and moisture transport in porous urban surfaces and solar and longwave radiation is presented, validated with wind tunnel experiments and used to study the effect of evaporative cooling on the t
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.
Many simulation software to predict thermal environment of buildings, such as temperature, humidity, heating and cooling load of building spaces, have been developed.
To design and evaluate advanced controls for build-ings , building system models that can show detailed dynamics of feedback control loops are required.