thermal simulation model

This paper focuses on a thermal simulation model of office rooms and experiments necessary to adequately estimate the required model parameters. For this, we investigated step responses for different parameters, e.g. the set point temperatures of the façade ventilation units and the concrete core activation, in the E.ON ERC Main building, to enable predictive modelling of the temperature in the office rooms.

It has been found that, among the tools and methods available for the energy calculation of double envelope elements, there are some debatable aspects such as: the selection of correlations for calculating the convective heat transfer coefficient and the procedure for calculating the temperature of the air layer. In addition, the validation of some models only refers to specific cases or no information is available whether or not a validation has been performed.