International Building Simulation Conference 2005, Montreal, Canada.
Contains 180 papers.
Volume content
This paper presents two DOE-2 functions to expand the modeling capability of DOE-2.1E, a popular calculation engine for building energy…
Building design and control applications can benefit from daylight simulation. Currently, most daylight simulation applications work with simplified…
Different heating system controllers for passive solar buildings are compared on two different buildings. The performance criterion combines…
This paper explores means for more effectively exploiting daylight in buildings through extending periods of illumination free of glare problems.…
In this paper, four different system configurations:
- a conventional stand alone direct expansion (DX) cooling coil,
- …
The aim of the presented work is to compare two solution methods of specific and latent heat transfer in building components e.g. walls, ceilings…
An Excel macro-programming model of the thermal behaviour of open and enclosed swimming pools is run in seven different scenarios of increasing…
Dynamic, three-dimensional models of existing facilities that are updated automatically based on data provided by advanced sensing technologies…
This paper investigates the robustness of a Genetic Algorithm (GA) search method in solving an unconstrained building optimization problem, when…
An optimal controller for auxiliary heating of passive solar buildings and commercial buildings with high internal gains is tested in simulation.…
This paper presents the application of multi-objective genetic algorithms for green building design to minimize two conflicting criteria: the life…
Significant R&D work has been on going in the development of integrated software environments that support building energy simulation.…
Moisture is one of the main problems in buildings. In spite of the complexity to describe moisture physical phenomena, recent technological…
This paper discusses the modification and testing of an existing dynamic thermal model to include the calculation of the effects of glazing and…
We analyzed the thermal environment within Kyoto city using a numerical model that considers three elements: the unsteady-state heat conduction of…
This paper presents an air cooled slab system (ACS) specially designed for use in multi-storey steel framed buildings. The system works by passing…
Increasingly the fire protection concerns at airports are being addressed using computational fluid dynamics and most of these studies have been…
Among the tools which serve to predict heat and mass transfer in a mechanically ventilated room, the…
The paper describes a research project which addresses the problem of supervisory control of systems which include a range of heat sources …
This work presents a simple design tool for the consideration of solar rights in urban design that was developed by the use of the computer model…