LoginA case study is used to introduce a two-step thermal demand calculation for buildings in order to take thermal bridges into consideration.
IBPSA 1997 - Prague, Czech Republic
International Building Simulation Conference 1997, Prague, Czech Republic.
Contains 117 papers.
Volume content
Integration of computer based modelling and an inter-disciplinary based approach to building design in post-graduate education | 1997 | English
Computer based design aids have much potential to improve the productivity of the design process and provide more confidence in the performance of a building.
Passport Plus is a new design tool for building thermal analysis which was developed within the European research project PASCOOL of the European Commission.
Design of air conditioning systems for efficient life-cycle operation using the ZEBRA software package | 1997 | English
Life-cycle design of air conditioning systems requires that plant should be capable of maintaining zone comfort conditions within specified limits, while minimising capital and operating costs.
Examination of the concept of using 'typical-week' weather data for simulation of annualized energy use in buildings | 1997 | English
This paper investigates the feasibility of using short segments of weather data to simulate annual energy use in buildings.
A numerical and experimental study is performed to analyze the influence of natural convection on heat transfer in a composite system comprising a porous material heated from below and an air space situated above this.
Reliable sky luminance models are considered to be conditio sine qua non for accurate computational simulation of daylight distribution in architectural spaces. Toward this end, the paper compares six sky models specifically with regard to their a
A new integrated simulation system for the building services design and facilities management purposes is being developed by Insinööritoimisto Olof Granlund Oy.
BASESIMP: a residential-foundation heat-loss algorithm for incorporating into whole-building energy-analysis programs | 1997 | English
Heat losses from foundations are poorly considered in many whole-building energy programs which are used to model houses.
Many building simulation computer programs, originally developed on mainframe computers for research purposes, can now run on the powerful workstation and personal computers that are available to most architectural and engineering firms.
The design of monitoring system for distnbuted energy and heat supply is presented in the paper.
COMIS 3.0: a new simulation environment for multizone air flow and pollutant transport modelling | 1997 | English
COMIS 3.0 is a new simulation environment developed in the framework of IEA/ECB Annex 23. To our knowledge this is the first time that one of the Annexes of IEA/ECB produces as its main result a validated software not only designed for research la
A major barrier to using energy simulation tools during the design process of a building has been the difficulty of using the available programs.
If a map of a city is encoded as a Digital Elevation Model, it becomes amenable to image-processing software, such as the public-domain NIH Image application.
Application of simulation in design and operation of refurbished buildings and heating systems | 1997 | English
This paper gives an introduction into the simulation of the thermic behaviour of a modernized building including the calculation of both single and two pipe heating by a new TYPE57 for simulation of heating pipe systems within the program TRNSYS.
In this paper, a new method of direct run - time coupling between building energy simulation and global illuminance simulation is outlined and discussed.
The use of daylighting and artificial lighting simulation programs to calculate complex systems and models in the design practice often is impeded by the fact that the operation of these programs, especially the model input, is extremely complicat
A new system for accessing transfer function coefficients for an architectural computer-aided thermal optimization tool | 1997 | English
A new system for accessing wall and roof transfer function coefficients has been developed.
A user-friendly tool for the integrated simulation of building HVAC control performance | 1997 | English
Full simulation of a building’s HVAC control is important. Good control is the most cost-effective way to reduce plant size and save energy and maintenance cost.
A fuzzy control adapted by a neural network to maintan a dwelling within thermal comfort | 1997 | English
This paper presents the results of a neuro fuzzy control setting the fan-coils air flow rate of three zones of a dwelling to improve the comfort.