LoginThis 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.
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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.
Poorly functioning and tuned control systems are a frequent source of building underperformance. Simulation can be an excellent method to study building controls, but a number of practical obstacles often interfere.
Many simulation software to predict thermal environment of buildings, such as temperature, humidity, heating and cooling load of building spaces, have been developed.
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.
This paper presents a library of simplified, yet accurate, physical models of the different components that can be found in a typical air-handling unit.
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
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 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
The contribution focuses on the simulate-based design and optimization of photovoltaic (PV)-driven cooling systems for residential buildings in hot and dry countries.
Thermally activated building systems (TABS) provide high temperature cooling and low temperature heating which has a better efficiency compared to traditional heating and cooling solutions.
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).