LoginWe 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.
IBPSA 1991 - Nice, France
International Building Simulation Conference, Nice, France, 1991.
Contains 85 abstracts.
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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.
The air flow pattern and temperature distribution in a naturally ventilated classroom were simulated using CFD techniques.
The rapid development in the thermal energy modelling requirements for buildings, marked by the need to integrate many phenomena, has led the Applications de l'Electricit department at Electricit de France to develop a general energy simulation to
This paper describes a numerical whole-building optimization method that has been developed to optimize selected residential building envelope and equipment efficiency parameters, using life-cycle cost (LCC) as the optimization criterion.
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.
The present paper shows a possible way to make simulation computer codes more easy to use by nonspecialists. The basic idea is to implement a code which translates the building representation into a suitable thermal model.