LoginEarth heat exchangers are advantageous features to reduce energy consumption in residential buildings.
IBPSA 1997 - Prague, Czech Republic
International Building Simulation Conference 1997, Prague, Czech Republic.
Contains 117 papers.
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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
Since two years, the Dutch building consultancy practice has been supported by an integrated design environment to base its advices on.
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.
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 describes the use of daylight coefficients in a computer tool which is based in Monte Carlo backward ray tracing merthod and was developed under the frame of DAYLIGHT- Europe EC Project.
Influence of modeling uncertainties on the simulation of building thermal comfort performance | 1997 | English
In this paper, the parameters in a building thermal simulation model are tracked, which are subject to modeling uncertainty, i.e. uncertainty arising from commonly applied physical assumptions and simplifications.
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.
Energy saving in office buildings: a case study in Rome through the use of DOE-2 and other simulation tools | 1997 | English
A large office building has been the object of a detailed feasibility study in order to select the most effective actions for energy saving in space cooling. Actions concerning the modification of building envelope layout, including materials, sha
Moisture permeability data presented as a mathematical function applicable to heat and moisture transport models | 1997 | English
The physics of moisture transfer is complex and as a result modelling is normally carried out on a macroscopic basis, with empirical coefficients used to simulate the transport process.
CA-SIS software has been developed on PC as a tool for engineering offices in their Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning studies.
This work describes the computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulation of flow and pollutant dispersion around a cube.
While visual rendering of buildings is the state of the art in today' s design programs, acoustic or auditory rendering is still in its infancy.
A hybrid monitoring-modeling procedure for analyzing the performance of large central chilling plants | 1997 | English
This paper presents a methodology to effectively model the performance of central chilled water plants in campus or multi-building complexes where detailed modeling of every building served by the plant is out of the question, usually due to budge
During the academic year 95-96 an NMF based model library has been developed by the IDA group.