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International Building Simulation Conference 2001, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Contains 153 papers

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Thermal performance simulation and the urban microclimate: measurements and prediction

Computer models used to predict building heating and cooling energy and occupant thermal comfort at present rely on climate data collected at a…

Terry J. Williamson1 and Evyatar Erel
Ventilation of double façades

This paper deals with the development and the testing of a simulation algorithm for the temperature behaviour and the flow characteristics of…

Jörn von Grabe, Rüdiger Lorenz, Ben Croxford
Testing and validation of a new building energy simulation program

Formal  independent  testing  has  been  an  integral component in the development of EnergyPlus, a new building energy…

Michael J. Witte, Robert H. Henninger, Jason Glazer, Drury B. Crawley
TRNSYS 15: a simulation tool for innovative concepts

Just in time for the 25th anniversary a new version of the international well-known simulation tool TRNSYS is released: TRNSYS 15. New …

M. Hiller, S. Holst, A.Knirsch, M. Schuler
Visualization for time dependent building simulation

This paper describes novel high-performance visualization techniques for reviewing time dependent data common to building simulation. These…

Daniel C.Glaser, M. Susan Ubbelohde
The adaptive couling of computacional fluid dynamics with whole-building thermal simulation

A adaptive controller was devised and implemented within the ESP-r simulation program to support the conflation of CFD with dynamic whole-building…

Ian Beausoleil-Morrison
Uncertainty analysis of building design evaluations

This    paper    summarizes    the    recently concluded PhD study by the first author. The study addressed…

Sten de Wit, Godfried Augenbroe
The influence of different courtyard configurations on natural ventilation through low-rise buildings

Natural  ventilation  represents  an  important  design strategy for school buildings in warm humid regions. It is an…

Leonardo Bittencourt and Luciana Peixoto
Uncertainty approaches for hygrothermal building simulations: drying of an AAC flat roof in different climates

In civil engineering there is an increasing demand for calculation methods to assess the moisture behaviour of building components. Current tasks, such…

Andreas Holm and Hartwig M. Kuenzel
Simulation od demand controlled ventilation in a low-energy house

In low energy dwellings the ventilation heat losses are significant. Reducing this heat losses can be done by introducing demand controlled ventilation…

J.C. Römer
The multi-criterion optimization of building thermal design and control

The design of buildings is a multi-criterion optimization problem, there always being a trade- off to be made between capital expenditure, operating…

Jonathan Wright and Heather Loosemore
Urban climate and its influence on energy consumption a case study in two brazilian cities

Two  prototype  office  buildings  with  low  internal gains were simulated using DOE2 software  to evaluate its…

Joyce Carlo and Roberto Lamberts
Simulation of sound insulation properties of 'Vacuum Zappi Facade Panels'

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 …

Marinus van der Voorden, Lau Nijs and Hanneke Spoorenberg
The need for computacional support in energy-efficient design projects in the Netherlands

This   paper   reports   on   a   research   project   that investigates the need for computational support for a…

P. de Wilde, M. van der Voorden, J. Brouwer, G. Augenbroe and H. Kaan
Use of 'Comfie' computer simulation tool for evaluation of thermal performance in housing units

This work deals with the use of the thermal simulation COMFIE tool, in the research project developed at Londrina State University / PR. In this…

Miriam J. Barbosa, Juliano Sakamoto, Andrea Zeballos Adachi, Jorge D. de Melo Moura
Simulation of the wind in hot and humid climates cities: evaluation of the natural ventilation potencial of the housing in urban blocks

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…

Frédéric Bonneaud, Marjorie Musy and Patrick Depecker
The significant factors in modelling residential buildings

For users and developers of energy simulation software tools, knowledge of which inputs have a signif- icant impact on the simulation results is very …

Julia Purdy and Ian Beausoleil-Morrison
Use of energy performance simulation for operation cost distribution in multipurpose conventional centre

The  paper  describes  case  study  of  application  of computer simulation in the field of operational energy costs…

Karel Kabele, Lada Centnerova, Zuzana Krtkova
SISLEY : an apen tool for transient-state two-dimensional heat transfer

Sisley  is  an  open  software  that  uses  the  volume element method to model two-dimensional heat transfer…

F. Déqué, J. Noel, J.J. Roux
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