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International Building Simulation Conference 2007, Beijing, China.

Contains 288 papers.

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Cooling effects of waterways on thermal comfort in urban districts during summer

This study assesses the extent of the cooling effects of waterways on the thermal environment of urban districts of Osaka by measurement and…

N Umemiya, M Kawamoto, R Okura and T Tanaka
Numerical study of circular jet diffuser for task ventilation of under-floor air supply system in tropics

Bases on the concept of task/ambient ventilation, fresh air can be decoupled from re-circulated air so as to improving ventilation effectiveness…

Bin Yang and S.C. Sekhar
Modeling human exposure to particles in indoor environments using a drift-flux model

This study developed a drift-flux model for particle movements in turbulent indoor airflows. To account for the process of particle deposition at…

Gao Naiping, Niu Jianlei
Estimating the impacts of climate change and urbanization on building performance

While the scientific literature is full of studies looking at the impact of climate change driven by human activity, there is very little research…

Drury B. Crawley
The daylight coefficient method and complex fenestration

The daylight coefficient method has been introduced in computer simulation as an efficient approach to compute indoor daylight illuminances through building…

A. Laouadi, C. F. Reinhart, D. Bourgeois
Creating weather files for climate change and urbanization impacts analysis

Over the past 15 years, much scientific work has been published on the potential human impacts on climates. For the Third Assessment Report…

Drury B. Crawley
Using energy simulation to operative temperature evaluation

According to the Czech legislative act the operative temperature is the evaluation criterion for thermal comfort in air-conditioned or heated…

Vladimir Zmrhal, Frantisek Drkal
Plant optimization program (pop) and its application in rate model for a large district energy and combined heat and power system

District energy systems provide commercial and residential space heating, air conditioning, domestic hot water, steam, and industrial process…

Qiang Chen, Chen Xu, David Claridge, Dan Turner, Song Deng
Computational approach for determining the directionality of light: directional-to-diffuse ratio

The directionality of light is defined as the balance between the diffuse and directional components of light within an environment. It is an…

Mehlika Inanici
Airflow network modeling in EnergyPlus

The airflow network model in EnergyPlus provides the ability to simulate multizone wind-driven airflows. The model is also able to simulate the…

Lixing Gu
Airflow and temperature field calculations for winter sports facilities

In the design of indoor winter sports facilities Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations are used to calculate the velocity and temperature…

Andrea Frisque
Utilizing high performance supercomputing facilities for interactive thermal comfort assessment

We outline the current state of the development of a computational steering environment (CSE) for the interactive simulation and local assessment…

Christoph van Treeck, Petra Wenisch, Andre Borrmann, Michael Pfaffinger, Nikola Cenic and Ernst Rank
Dynamic simulation of blind control strategies for visual comfort and energy balance analysis

The presented study describes a method for evaluating control strategies for shading devices. The method is based on dynamic lighting simulations …

Jan Wienold
Thermal environment of outdoor units of vrv system in highrise building

Variable Refrigerant Volume(VRV) air-conditioning system is more liable to meet thermal environment problem than other systems such as split-type…

Gang Wang, Yafeng Hu, Songtao Hu
Pressure coefficient simulated by cfd for wind-driven ventilation analysis

Pressure coefficients (CP) are fundamental to calculate ventilation rates in buildings by the airflow network models (AFN). This paper deals with…

Daniel Cóstola, Marcia Alucci
Prediction of air quality considering the concealed air leaks of houses

In this study, the characteristics of the movement of chemical compounds in the concealed spaces and indoor spaces in houses were investigated…

Motoya Hayashi, Haruki Osawa, Yoshinori Honma and Miyuki Matsui
Integration of a multizone airflow model into a thermal simulation program

An existing computer model for dynamic hygrothermal analysis of buildings has been extended with a multizone airflow model based on loop equations…

Rasmus L. Jensen , Karl Grau, and Per K. Heiselberg
A RSM model for the prediction of heat and mass transfer in a ventilated room

A full-scale test room is used to investigate experimentally and numerically the velocity and temperature fields in the case of a mechanical …

Frédéric Kuznik, Jean Brau, Gilles Rusaouen
Flow simulation for design of ventilation systems in animal houses

house is a dominant factor for animal welfare. There are threshold values or recommendations for the most important climate parameters.…

H - J Mueller, K - H Krause
The impact of traffic-related pollutant on indoor air quality in buildings near main roads

Traffic–related pollutant has been recognized as an air pollution hot spot due to its large emission rate and great health impacts for the exposed…

Jing Liu, Jianing Zhao, Dexing Sun
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