On the integration of hygrothermal bridges into whole building HAM modeling

This paper focuses on the issue of integrating two or three dimensional models of heat and moisture transfer in porous materials with whole building HAM model-ing. To assess this aim, this paper proposes a reduced order model to simulate 2D Heat, air and moisture (HAM) behaviour in porous material. The reduction method used is the proper orthogonal decomposition. The method is applied on a block of concrete. Reduced order model and large original model are compared. The results illustrate the significant value of model re-duction for modelling 2D heat and mass transfers.