LoginThe aim of this paper is to show the influence of the atmospheric boundary layer profile on the distribution of velocity in a building having two large openings.
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This paper focuses initially on the calculation of the flows of exergy corresponding to the energy demand of buildings for the following uses: heating and cooling in the air handling units, local (room level) heating and cooling, lighting, ventila
Building performance simulation tools have significantly improved in quality and depth of analysis capability over the past thirty-five years.
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation technique was used to study the effect of air distribution and supply parameters on ventilation performance and comfort of occupants in a government office building in Ottawa, Canada.
Among the tools which serve to predict heat and mass transfer in a mechanically ventilated room, the CPD is increasingly used .
Burn Intensive Care Units (ICU) have among the most stringent design criteria for patient rooms in hospital design.
This paper represents the next step in the development of occupant responsive optimal control for double-skin systems that was presented at the IBPSA 2003 conference.
This paper gives an overview of recent developments and results of a new integrated heat, air and moisture (HAM) modeling toolkit in Matlab named HAMLab. The recent developments include integration of a whole building model with building systems a
Stand-alone software for predicting contaminant transport and behaviour is well developed, but to be more effective, it needs to be integrated within whole building simulation.
This paper reports on progress of an ongoing research project, which aims to achieve better control modeling in building performance simulation by integrating distributed computer programs.
Communications between buildings and their occupants through multimodal Human Computer Interactions (HCI) can dramatically enhance the way buildings are experienced.
It is beneficial for the safe and optimal operation of system and energy conservation to find out and eliminate the faults existing in HVAC systems in time. For a large-scale and complex HVAC system, an automatic fault detection and diagnosis syst
In this paper, microscopic and macroscopic flow analyses have been employed to identify and analyze the causes of discrepancies of power law zonal models.
The use of Matlab, a tool for mathematical programming, is actually increasing in a large number of fields.
We analyzed the thermal environment within Kyoto city using a numerical model that considers three elements: the unsteady-state heat conduction of building walls and ground surfaces, radiation heat exchange between walls and ground surfaces, and a
The paper describes a research project which addresses the problem of supervisory control of systems which include a range of heat sources combined with active and passive thermal storage. The work is based around a prototype building which has a
Despite the low energy and lower maintenance benefits of ground-source heat pump systems, little work has been undertaken in detailed analysis and simulation of such systems.
A comprehensive modeling of radiative and convective heat transfer of a compact double-skin facade equipped with venetian blind is proposed here.
Personalized ventilation (PV) has the ability to improve inhaled air quality and accommodate the individual thermal preference.