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International Building Simulation Conference 2013, Chambéry, France.
Contains 470 papers.
Volume content
Electricity storage within the domestic sector as a means to enable renewable energy integration within existing electricity networks | 2013 | English
With the present drive to add renewable generation capacity to existing electrical networks, utility providers are seeking ways to store electrical energy as a means of prioritising renewable sources against an unfavourable load profile.
Use of CFD simulations to improve the pedestrian wind comfort around a high-rise building in a complex urban area | 2013 | English
Comparison of conventional, parametric and evolutionary optimization approaches for the architectural design of nearly zero energy buildings | 2013 | English
Development of a high-order discontinuous Galerkin method for the DNS and LES of natural convection flows in buildings. | 2013 | English
This paper discusses the use of a high-resolution code based on the discontinuous Galerkin method (DGM) for the direct numerical simulation (DNS) of natural convection flows in buildings.
The computational cost for the repeated evaluation of zonal-type building simulation models can be pro-hibitive especially in contexts, such as Building Opti-mization and Control Design, where repeated evalua-tion of the models — for different ini
Urban heat island in Boston – an evaluation of urban air temperature models for predicting building energy use | 2013 | English
The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect is a well-documented phenomenon, in which the air-temperature in an urban area is elevated relative to the regional air-temperature.
Heat demand management through demand shifting will be crucial to enable load balancing in a future electricity grid with large domestic heating loads.
This paper introduces a new software developed for building performance optimization. MOBO is a generic freeware able to handle single and multi-objective optimization problems with continuous and discrete variables and constraint functions.
Climate classification for the simulation of thermally activated building systems (TABS) | 2013 | English
Thermally activated building systems (TABS) provide high temperature cooling and low temperature heating which has a better efficiency compared to traditional heating and cooling solutions.
An urban microclimate model including air flow, heat and moisture transport in porous urban surfaces and solar and longwave radiation is presented, validated with wind tunnel experiments and used to study the effect of evaporative cooling on the t
Poorly functioning and tuned control systems are a frequent source of building underperformance. Simulation can be an excellent method to study building controls, but a number of practical obstacles often interfere.
Deployment of energy simulation for design of voluntary window labeling program in India | 2013 | English
Numerical study on specular solar reflectors aimed at increasing solar reflectivity of building envelope | 2013 | English
Techniques that improve solar reflectivity of urban surfaces to mitigate urban heat island phenomenon have become widespread with the use of highly- reflective paints (Kondo, 2008).
Comparison of untypical meteorological years (umy) and their influence on building energy performance simulations | 2013 | English
Three versions (type 1, 2 and 3) of untypical climate data based on the Weather Year for Energy Calculations 2 (WYEC2) methodology were calculated.
How to integrate optimization into building design practice: lessons learnt from a design optimization competition | 2013 | English
Skylight design performance evaluation method development with thermal and daylight simulation | 2013 | English
This paper presents a methodology for optimizing skylight design with the considerations of thermal comfort, daylight availability and energy performance by integrated daylight and thermal simulation.
Simulation-based design of PV cooling systems for residential buildings in hot and dry climates | 2013 | English
The contribution focuses on the simulate-based design and optimization of photovoltaic (PV)-driven cooling systems for residential buildings in hot and dry countries.