LoginThis paper describes four simulation models, which reproduce energy and temperature measurements of occupied buildings very well.
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The software Sim_Zonal is a tool for evaluating indoor temperature and air flow distributions for residential and office buildings.
Modelling of buildings with natural or hybrid ventilation systems requires the coupling of a thermal and an air flow model because of the strong mutual impact of the thermal and the air flow behaviour.
The aim of the European SSHORT (Sustainable Social Housing Refurbishment Technologies) project is to increase and promote rational and efficient use of energy in the retrofitting of social housing buildings.
People that work in office buildings have new needs in terms of comfort within their work place. We suggest to develop a multicriteria office cell façade, allowing to control luminous, thermal and airflow parameters.
In tropical humid climate, thermal environment can be controlled using natural ventilation. But this technic raises the problem of acoustic comfort.
In the standard design process of a building, total building simulation using building simulation software is encouraged to be incorporated into the design process as early as possible.
The set points of supervisory control strategy are optimized with respect to energy use and thermal comfort for existing HVAC systems.
To provide additional validation data for the multizone airflow and contaminant model, CONTAMW, experiments were performed in an occupied 3-story townhouse in Reston, VA.
Whole building simulation may play a key role in the optimization and assessment of the market potential of new building components.
Occupant responsive optimal control is developed for so called smart façade systems.
A comfortable indoor climate environment is necessary for modern buildings and therefore the Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) systems are widely used.
This paper describes a performance-based evolution model using Genetic Algorith as the evolution algorithm and CFD as the evaluation mechanism.
This paper presents the development of a simulation tool based on the Matlab computational environment for building temperature performance analysis with automatic control.
This paper will address the shortcomings of typical heat balance-based HVAC design and analysis software when applied to thermal displacement ventilation (TDV) system design.
With the advancement of technology, and with the widespread availability of simulation tools, we are forced to consider which simulation tool would be appropriate for a particular problem.
Air supply diffusers used in air-conditioning systems can be classified as ceiling diffusers, sidewall diffusers, floor diffusers, jet nozzles, and low velocity displacement diffusers.
The hygrothermal behavior of a building component exposed to weather is an important aspect of the overall performance of a building.
Convective air circulation occurring through wall layers is frequently observed in building envelopes.
Air infiltration through revolving doors may have significant impact on the heating load of commercial and institutional spaces, and may create discomfort to people. This paper modifies a 40-year old model by Schutrum et al.