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AIRBASE is the Bibliographic Database of the AIVC. It contains publications and abstracts of articles related to energy efficient ventilation. Where possible, sufficient detail is supplied in the bibliographic details for users to trace and order the material via their own libraries. Topics include: ventilation strategies, design and retrofit methods, calculation techniques, standards and regulations, measurement methods, indoor air quality and energy implications etc. Entries are based on articles and reports published in journals, internal publications and research reports, produced both by university departments and by building research institutions throughout the world. AIRBASE has grown and evolved over many years (1979 to present day, over 22000 references and 16000 documents available online). For most of the references, the full document is also available online.
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This paper examines how calibration performs under different levels of uncertainty in model input data. It specifically assesses the efficacy of Bayesian calibration to enhance the reliability of EnergyPlus models.
The building performance simulation community ap-plies theory from several different fields to develop models for heat transfer, light propagation, human be-havior, and other domains.
The present work reports an experimental procedure designed to verify a particular solution for the distri-bution of artificial light sources.
It is a known fact that fault in the buildings can cause as much as 30% increase in energy consumption. Thus, identifying critical failure modes affecting building energy performance is important.
Simulating a building to predict its performance over the course of a full year requires an accurate repre-sentation of the stable and representative weather pat-terns of a location, i.e. a weather file.
As an important influence factor of unban climate, unban water bodies take positive effect on the micro-climate of surrounding area in summer.
This paper, which is an extension of previous studies, presents the modeling of an existing central cooling plant by using the EnergyPlus program.
Some building performance simulation programs compute the volume flow rate in ducts and pipe net-works for a given fan speed, which may be computed by a feedback controller, based on the intersection of the flow resistance and fan curve.
Windows are the only part in buildings that can directly penetrate the solar radiation into the space and thus the shading devices are needed to control the solar penetration.
Heating and cooling load estimation is based on the heat balance method. Although this method has strong physical basis, it yields an acausal system when the heat capacity of the indoor space is non-negligible.
Optimizing the operations of a HVAC system in response to the dynamic loads and varying weather conditions throughout a year can result in substantial energy savings.
The objective of this paper is to present a general methodology for the calculation of thermal response factors, known as g-functions, of vertical borehole fields.