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International Building Simulation Conference 2013, Chambéry, France.
Contains 470 papers.
Volume content
Numerical study of evaporative cooling as a climate change adaptation measure at the building and street scale: Case study for Bergpolder Zuid | 2013 | English
Adaptation to climate change on an urban scale is important, as increases in temperature will be inevitable according to future climate scenarios.
Effect of wall merging on a simplified building energy model: accuracy vs number of equations | 2013 | English
The concept of a supply-air window is to allow air renewal circulating between glasses before entering inwards. Based on this principle, a part of heat transfer through the glasses is recovered by air renewal.
Urban complexity and coupled CFD / thermo radiative modeling: a review of case studies | 2013 | English
Recent computational improvements allow for wind and thermal simulations on more complex urban configurations. Their thermo-aeraulic features can now be investigated by more sophisticated CFD models, coupled with energy ones.
Impact of thermal mass on summer comfort in building: a numerical approach leading to a decision support tool | 2013 | English
Hygrothermal behaviour of a hemp concrete wall: experimental and numerical approach | 2013 | English
Robustness of reduced-order models for prediction and simulation of the thermal behavior of dwellings | 2013 | English
A probabilistic model to predict building occupants’ diversity towards their interactions with the building envelope | 2013 | English
Based on observations conducted in an office building, we apply advanced statistical analysis methods, leading to the formulation of stochastic models for the prediction of buildings occupants’ actions on window openings and shading devices.
In order to inform the design of a building or a group of buildings in relation to their potential energy efficiency, the main impact will be at the initial concept design stage.
Analysis of the air heating in Norwegian passive houses using detailed dynamic simulations | 2013 | English
The availability of input data and appropriate computing times are two major challenges when simulating entire city districts. For dynamic heat demand simulations, we contribute to these tasks by developing an integral tool chain.
Performance evaluation of a low temperature district heating system based on simulation, uncertainty and sensitivity analysis | 2013 | English
The scope of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (2002/91/EC and 2010/31/EC) is the reduction of energy use in buildings in the EU.
Understanding the trade-offs between thermal comfort and energy consumption in air-conditioned office spaces in India | 2013 | English
This study aims to establish a correlation between thermal comfort and energy consumption for typical office buildings in India. Building envelope characteristics are varied to represent local energy code compliant case.
Influence of natural ventilation on solar gains and natural lighting by opening windows | 2013 | English
Natural ventilation generally implies a complete or partial opening of windows which modifies the solar gains and the natural lighting, changing the solar and daylight factors.
Simulation assisted implementation of a model based control parameter fine-tuning methodology for a non-residential building with a complex energy system | 2013 | English
The role of environmental and personal variables in influencing thermal comfort indices used in building simulation | 2013 | English
The need to identify variables, which influence human behaviour, has become one of the priorities in the quest to reduce energy demand.
Innovative ventilated envelope elements for solar heat recovery in low energy buildings | 2013 | English
Several measurements were performed on an innovative perforated solar wall.