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

Contains 153 papers

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Error estimation of measurement methods by computer simulation

Computer  simulation  Of  measurement  methods  can give in-depth information on the possible effect of a wide variety of…

Achim Geissler
Daylighting of classrooms through courtyards

Due to in adequate architectural standards and bad building design, one can frequently find school buildings with very bad performance regarding…

Leonardo Bittencourt and Mariana Melo
Automatic unit and property conversion in spark

In object based models, conversion becomes necessary when there is a mismatch among the representations of same physical quantity at the ports…

Edward F. , Michael A. Moshier, Ender Erdem
Direct building energy simulation based on large Eddy techniques and Lattice Boltzmann methods

The modeling of convective flows with 3D lattice Boltzmann fluid dynamics is presented using a lattice BGK approach for low Mach number flows with…

C. van Treeck, M. Krafczyk, S. Kühner, E. Rank
CODYBA: a design tool for buildings performance simulation

CODYBA is a software addressed to designers, teachers and research organisms. This software determines the energetic fluxes of a building zone.…

Jean NOEL, Jean-Jacques ROUX, Paulo Smith SCHNEIDER
Estimation of relative humidity for thermal comfort assessment

Estimating  relative  humidity  from  outdoor  air temperature and humidity, and indoor air temperature is a means to assess…

Eduardo L. Krüger
Daylighting simulation of japonese architecture using all sky model

There are two purposes for this paper, one is that the calculation method, which took sunlight into consideration using All Sky Model, is shown,…

Masaki Manabe, Hitoshi Yamazaki and Shoich Kojima
BCHP computer simulation for medical complex design

This paper will describe a simulation experiment designed to benchmark the use of separate electric driven chiller plants for a nominal 100,000 sq.…

M. Meckler
Distributed simulations: an object oriented approach

During the past few years, our research team has developed techniques to solve problems associated with designing a collaborative evaluation …

Eleni Primikiri and Ali Malkawi
ColSim: a new simultaion environment for complex system analysis and controllers

The paper describes the main features of the new simulation environment ColSim [15] and a special application for investigating ventilation strategies…

Christof Wittwer, Werner Hube, Peter Schossig, Andreas Wagner, Christiane Kettner, Max Mertins, Klaus Rittenhofer
A. Suleiman, Y. Le Maoult, J.P. Arcens, A. Trombe
Daylighting systems for the tropics example of laser cut panels (Austrália) and plexiglas daylight (Germany)

In recent years several daylighting systems were developed. Due to a generally felt lack of daylight because of climatic conditions the…

Michael Laar
Brise soleil: classical elements of tropical modernism

Horizontal and vertical brises soleil are dominant elements in the modernist tropical architecture. It was the obvious answer to the question on…

Michael Laar
Distributed web-based building performance computing: a Singapore-US collaborative effort

This paper reports on the progress of the S2 project. This is an ongoing effort toward an Internet-based environment for distributed collaborative…

K. P. Lam,A. Mahdavi, R. Brahme, Z. Kang, M. E. Ilal, N.H. Wong, S. Gupta, K. S. Au
COMIS V3.1 simulation environment for multizone air flow and pollutant transport modelling

COMIS simulates multizone airflow and pollutant transport. It has been developed in an international context at LBNL and within IEA Annex 23. At…

Viktor Dorer, Anne Haas, Werner Keilholz, Roger Pelletret, Andreas Weber
Delivering simulation to the profession: the next stage?

Over the last fifteen years, there have been a number of UK initiatives which facilitated practitioner access to simulation programs (e.g. Clarke and …

McElroy L B, Clarke J A, Hand J W, Macdonald I A
BSPRO COM-SERVER: interoperability between software tools using industry foundation classes

The continuing development of the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) standard by the International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI) creates…

Antti Karola, Hannu Lahtela, Reijo Hänninen, Olof Granlund Oy, Rob Hitchcock, Qingyan Chen, Stephen Dajka, Kim Hagström
DOMUS 1.0: a brazilian program for building simulation

The software DOMUS has been developed to model coupled heat and moisture transfer in multi-zone buildings. DOMUS has been conceived to be a very …

Nathan Mendes, Ricardo C.L.F. de Oliveira and Gerson H. dos Santos
Complex building performance analysis in early stages of design: a solution based on differential modeling, homology-based mapping, and generative design agents

Computational performance-based building design support faces a conflict. It is important to provide building performance feed back to the…

R. Brahme , A. Mahdavi, K.P. Lam , S. Gupta
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