LoginThis paper is concerned with the optimisation of some design criteria for water based active solar space heating systems intended for residential applications in Cyprus.
IBPSA 1997 - Prague, Czech Republic
International Building Simulation Conference 1997, Prague, Czech Republic.
Contains 117 papers.
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Optimisation of design criteria for solar space heating systems through modelling and simulation | 1997 | English
Simulation of visual and thermal comfort related to daylighting and solar radiation in office buildings | 1997 | English
The research we develop consists in evaluating "radiative comfort" during no heating periods in dwelling space and particularly in office buildings. The expression "radiative comfort" is used to characterize the thermal and visual component of the
SOMBRERO: shadow calculations on arbitrarily oriented surfaces as a preprocessor for simulation programs | 1997 | English
SOMBRERO, a PC-program running under the operating system WindowsTM, calculates the proportion of shaded area of an arbitrarily oriented surface surrounded by shading elements as a function of time and location.
Optimization and control of displacement ventilation systems in buildings require accurate modeling of aeraulic and thermal phenomena involved in the establishment or the destruction of thermal stratification in the room.
Hollow core ventilated slab systems provide an effective means of utilizing the building structure as a thermal store.
Central to the formulation of a mathematical model to describe moisture transport through porous building materials is the initial choice of the flow driving potentials.
A simplified heat transfer calculation method for underground buildings is developed. The method is based on the results from the ITPE method and is suitable for seasonal heat loss calculation.
Earth heat exchangers are advantageous features to reduce energy consumption in residential buildings.
Epidemiological evidence suggests that mould infestation in buildings can have serious health implications for the occupants.
This paper reports the current state of an ongoing collaborative project which aims to promote modelling and simulation of energy in buildings by making self-learning course material available on the World Wide Web (WWW).
The lighting simulation programme Radiance is used to predict daylight factors and the illuminance distribution in a room which is 12m x 12m x 3.6m high, with grey tinted solar control glazing.
Models of faulty components or processes may either be used on-line as part of a fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) system or may be used in simulations to train or test FDD procedures. Some faults may be modelled by choosing suitable values of t
New educational software for teaching the sunpath diagram and shading mask protactor | 1997 | English
The well-known versions of the sunpath diagrams that appear in the AIA’s Architectural Graphics Standards are based on the equidistant sky dome projections and use a shading mask protractor developed by Olgyay and Olgyay at Princeton University in
Building thermal models reduction: improving exixting methods by taking spectral imputs characteristics into account | 1997 | English
Modal-based model reduction techniques have been modified in order to improve their performance when applied to building thermal models.
Since two years, the Dutch building consultancy practice has been supported by an integrated design environment to base its advices on.
Collaborative building engineering is a team effort in which many elements have to be combined into a unified structure. The aims of the architect, the engineer and all the other players have to merge into a seamless design process.
Evaluation of the finite control volume method in simulating thermal fire resistance of building elements | 1997 | English
Application of the finite control volume method on simulating thermal fire resistance of building materials and elements was evaluated. Example was taken on studying the thermal responses of a concrete column under fire.
This paper discusses a multi-year (MY) approach to building energy simulation and presents a pilot study in Hong Kong that investigates long-term building energy performance using MY weather data. Building energy simulations in the pilot study wer
This paper reports the first results of an ongoing project aimed at generating design information /knowledge for wet central heating (WCH) refurbishment in multi-family houses in Central Europe.