International Building Simulation Conference 2001, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Contains 153 papers
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A adaptive controller was devised and implemented within the ESP-r simulation program to support the conflation of CFD with dynamic whole-building…
This paper summarizes the recently concluded PhD study by the first author. The study addressed…
Natural ventilation represents an important design strategy for school buildings in warm humid regions. It is an…
In civil engineering there is an increasing demand for calculation methods to assess the moisture behaviour of building components. Current tasks, such…
In low energy dwellings the ventilation heat losses are significant. Reducing this heat losses can be done by introducing demand controlled ventilation…
The design of buildings is a multi-criterion optimization problem, there always being a trade- off to be made between capital expenditure, operating…
Two prototype office buildings with low internal gains were simulated using DOE2 software to evaluate its…
This paper reports on an ongoing research project aiming at prediction of the sound insulation proper- ties of a specific type of facade panel by …
This paper reports on a research project that investigates the need for computational support for a…
This work deals with the use of the thermal simulation COMFIE tool, in the research project developed at Londrina State University / PR. In this…
This work is a multidisciplinary approach of natural ventilation in hot and humid climates. Our aim is the control of thermal comfort in tropical towns…
For users and developers of energy simulation software tools, knowledge of which inputs have a signif- icant impact on the simulation results is very …
The paper describes case study of application of computer simulation in the field of operational energy costs…
Sisley is an open software that uses the volume element method to model two-dimensional heat transfer…
Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) system implementation is on the rise worldwide. A computer modeling tool was…
The application of model-based performance assessment at the whole building level is explored. The…
This paper describes a new approach of using simulation directly in construction industry in Czech Republic.…
The simultaneous optimization of building’s fabric construction, the size of heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) system, and the HVAC…
This paper provides an overview of how building simulation is used to support a Canadian Govern- ment energy-efficient incentive programme. It …
Energy simulation (ES) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) can play important roles in building design by providing…