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Bibliographic database Airbase
AIRBASE is the Bibliographic Database of the AIVC. It contains publications and abstracts of articles related to energy efficient ventilation. Where possible, sufficient detail is supplied in the bibliographic details for users to trace and order the material via their own libraries. Topics include: ventilation strategies, design and retrofit methods, calculation techniques, standards and regulations, measurement methods, indoor air quality and energy implications etc. Entries are based on articles and reports published in journals, internal publications and research reports, produced both by university departments and by building research institutions throughout the world. AIRBASE has grown and evolved over many years (1979 to present day, over 22000 references and 16000 documents available online). For most of the references, the full document is also available online.
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Increasing design standards within the building industry mean that some form of pre-construction testing of the building envelope is required.
The technique of field modelling is applied to predict the indoor air movement and convective heat transfer induced by thermal sources in big enclosures.
From the observation that existing simulation programs exploit neither the subjacent parallelism in building energy management problems nor parallel computer possibilities, we develop certain principles and apply them to a well-known program, TRNS
The Customer Systems Division at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) is developing materials to enhance the adoption of advanced electric technologies. Among in these materials are a number of software programs.
The building design process, with all its inherent complexities, is still by and large regarded and conducted as a series of rather discrete sequential operations.
Mathematical models are presented that account for the mass transport processes associated with isothermal reversible sorption in building materials.
Scale models and CFD for the analysis of air flow in passively ventilated buildings | 1991 | English
A new bioclimatic building concept based on solardriven ventilation is analysed through the use of physical and numerical modelling.
Over the past seven years, Ross & Baruzzini, Inc., (R&B) has been working on a project to determine the relationship of the air conditioning load caused by building lighting with time.
SETIS is aiming at building a computer support for building thermal design. It deals both with the envelop of building and with its HVAC system.
The need for increasingly sharp modelling of building energy behaviour allowing comfort to be evaluated within a heated, ventilated dwelling room leads Electricite De France ADE Department to develop an air interior movement simulation model.
SIMULAR AIR is a computer code for calculating the three dimensional transient indoor air flow using a k,e-turbulence model.
The air flow pattern and temperature distribution in a naturally ventilated classroom were simulated using CFD techniques.
This paper summarizes the approach, method, and some results of an ongoing systematic study in simulation and evaluation of daylight factor distribution in rooms.
This paper explores the implications of object oriented representation of buildings in the simulation of dynamic processes in architectural environments.
Evacuation is a vitally important component of emergency management. Effective evacuation planning and evacuation management can be the difference between safety and tragedy in an emergency situation.
The simulation complexity of the thermal behaviour of buildings can be reduced by splitting it up as a hierarchical system of linked components.
Zonal models are a promising way to predict air movement in a room with respect to comfort conditions and gradient of temperature because they require extremely low computer time and may be therefore rather easily included in multizone air movemen
The study is focussed on the sensibility of optimal start/stop control of hydronic heating systems on boiler and radiator sizing, supply temperature lift, and the building occupancy pattern.
The TEF (Transfer Evolution Formalism) and the ZOOM software (Zone Organized Optimal Modelling) have been developped in order to give a flexible framework for physics oriented modelling.