LoginThe development of an interface, which links two building simulation tools to a test version of a product model is discussed.
IBPSA 1991 - Nice, France
International Building Simulation Conference, Nice, France, 1991.
Contains 85 abstracts.
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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 developments in the computer-aided building design will enable designers to improve the energy performance in buildings, through a more appropriate design which will be better structured, will learn from previously accumulated knowledge (e.g.,
The technique of field modelling is applied to predict the indoor air movement and convective heat transfer induced by thermal sources in big enclosures.
Building design with a multi-discipline CAD system using object-oriented environment | 1991 | English
The aim of our paper is to present a multi-discipline CAD system named CONCEPTOR which allows the user to work during the various stages of the building engineering design.
We describe the need for a joint effort between design researchers and simulation tool developers in formulating procedures and standards for integrating simulation into the building design process.
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.
Simulation of thermal building behaviour based on an object oriented ADA implementation | 1991 | English
The simulation complexity of the thermal behaviour of buildings can be reduced by splitting it up as a hierarchical system of linked components.
Well insulated walls of residences experience temperature depression in their outer layers during cold weather, causing moisture to condense on the surfaces.
Multi Approaches of Comfort in Architectural Design of Resdential Buildings: the AMACH Project. | 1991 | English
The ever widening range of skills necessary for architectural design requires a specialisation of each player working together toward the same goal within a number of distributed tasks.
The Energy Kernel System (EKS) project has reached the final year of its three year duration. The modus operandi has been designed, a class taxonomy devised and the software implementation process commenced.
In this paper, we want to show an application of fuzzy control to building thermal regulation.
General continuous simulation of today is a handicraft mastered by a small group of experts. Systematic modelling techniques and supporting tools are beginning to emerge, promising access to advanced simulation also for less experienced users.
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.
Simulation of processes in building as a factor in the object representation of built environments | 1991 | English
This paper explores the implications of object oriented representation of buildings in the simulation of dynamic processes in architectural environments.
The "object oriented programming" and model reduction tniques give some new possibilities to develop computer tools.
Because every description formalism has advantages and disadvantages, a modelling platform for ODE/DAE systems allowing several formalisms would be required. MS1 is such a program and is described in this paper.
Design Reference Years are used as climatic input data for computer calculations-simulations - mainly of solar energy systems, and of building energy consumption, energy conservation, indoor climate and comfort.
One of the inherent problems with monitoring hourly energy use and environmental conditions in commercial buildings is efficiently processing the "sea" of data that accumulates into an easily understood form.
Performance Simulation as a Front-end Tool For "Integrative" Conceptual Design Evaluation | 1991 | English
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.