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International Building Simulation Conference 1999, Kyoto, Japan.

Contains 177 papers

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The simulation of building electrical power flows

Recent developments in photovoltaic components, small-scale combined heat and power systems and ducted wind turbines have opened up the possibility…

Kelly N J, Clarke J A
Towards the building as power plant: computacional analysis of building enrgy self-sustenance

In recent years there have been a number of research and development initiatives directed at integrated energy generation systems which can meet the…

Paul Mathew, Volker Hartkopf, Ardeshir Mahdavi
System dynamics model for life cycle assessment (LCA) of residential buildings

An evaluation method for life cycle energy (LCE) and CO2 (LCCO2) of houses by the  system dynamics (SD), a method for understanding how all the…

Hiroshi Matsumoto
The simulation of photovoltaic power generation and wind power generation on the hydrid electricity supply system of a building

Solar energy and wind energy are one of renewable energies, and they are inexhaustible energy source which are available anywhere. Photovoltaic power…

Masafumi Terawaki and Isamu Suzuki
UMIDUS: A PC program for the prediction of heat and moisture transfer in porous buildings elements

This paper presents the Umidus program which has been developed to model coupled heat and moisture transfer within porous media, in order to analyze…

Nathan Mendes, Ian Ridley, Roberto Lamberts, Paulo C. Philippi and Karlos Budag
The advantages of building simulation for building design engineers

Building dynamic simulation has been available to building design engineers for some time. However steady state methods are still being used and …

K.H. Beattie and I.C. Ward
The use of differential permeability in moisture transport modelling

The  successful  application of  moisture  simulation models to building envelopes requires accurate values of material transport…

Graham H Galbraith, R Craig McLean, Jiansong Guo, David Kelly, Chee-Kong Lee
Validation of the CLIM2000 software program by using analytical verification

Up to now, within the framework of validation of the global building energy simulation software programme CLIM2000, we have not focused on analytical…

Gilles Guyon, Stéphane Moinard, Nacim Ramdani
The analysis of the convenctive-conductive heat transfer in the building constructions

The numerical model for the analysis of the combined convective-conductive heat transfer in the building components has been developed. Presented model…

Zbynek Svoboda
The use of simulation software to evaluate the thermal performance of buildings in Brazil

The  traditional  methods  for  the  evaluation  of  the thermal performance of buildings are appropriate to winter…

Maria Akutsu and Fúlvio Vittorino
Variety modes and chaos in smoke ventilation by ceiling chamber system

This  paper  referrer  to  the  existence  of  the variety modes and the 'chaos' in building ventilation system, and…

Katsumichi Nitta
The applicability of ray-tracing based simulation tools to predict sound pressure levels and reverberation times in 'coupled spaces'

Nowadays   architects   commonly   use   the   ‘coupled space concept’. Examples are mezzanines, half-open office spaces and…

Marinus van der Voorden, Lau Nijs, Gerrit Vermeir and Gert Jansens
THERM 2.0: a building component model for seady-satate two-dimensional heat transfer

THERM  2.0  is  a  state-of-the-art  software  program, available without cost,  that uses the finite-element method…

Charlie Huizenga, Dariush Arasteh, Elizabeth Finlayson, Robin Mitchell, Brent Griffith, Dragan Curcija
VAV system analysis

There  are  two  kind  of  supply  fan  rotation  speed control methods, one is the static pressure control…

Xue Zhifeng,Chen Feng and Jiang Yi
The application of computer simulation techniques to the design and preservation of a national monument

The paper outlines a two-year research program where Radiance was used in the conversion of Empress Place, a national monument in Singapore, into an…

Edward Ng, Khee-Poh Lam, Wei Wu, Takehiko Nagakura
Thermal analysis of 3-dimensional heat brigdes included in steel framed houses: method of making models and analysis examples

In this report, recently developed computer program named TB3D/FDM(Thermal Bridge Computa- tion by 2- or 3-Dimensional Finite Difference Method) is…

Hideyo Nimiya, Hiroshi Akasaka, Satoshi Obara and Kiyoshi Itami
The architecture of S2

We present in this paper the essential aspects of the S2 system. This is the  internet realization of SEMPER: An active, multi-domain, space-based…

Ardeshir Mahdavi, Mustafa Emre Ilal, Paul Mathew, Robert Ries, Georg Suter, Rohini Brahme
Thermal and airflow network simulation program nets

Based  on  the  thermal  and  airflow  network  model with simple but perfect generic formulations and stable…

Hiroyasu Okuyama
The control of the thermal environment of perimeter spaces in buildings to prevent cold drafts

This paper is focused on the evaluation of simulation system using the experiment result and the con- figuration of peri-counter which is the part of…

Yuji Hukushima, Yasuo Utsumi, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Yoshimi Ishikawa, Mitsuo Suzuki and Tatsuya Yamashita
Thermal comfort and pollutant transport prediction in the object oriented environment spark

A coarse-grid zonal model of room air convection is formulated and written with the SPARK object- oriented simulation environment. The model consists…

E. Wurtz, M. Musy, J.M. Nataf
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