International Building Simulation Conference 2011, Sydney, Australia.
Contains 206 papers.
Volume content
In this paper a user model for the use of windows based on measurements in residential buildings is developed. Detailed literature review provides an…
The study, conducted in composite climate of India, exhibits improvement in energy efficiency of a conditioned building block with the use of energy…
The paper presents combined approaches dedicated to assess the thermal comfort in a tropical climate. UrbaWind, an automatic computational fluid dynamics…
This paper describes a modelling comparison between three very similar medium sized educational buildings located in the temperate climate of Nelson, New…
Discrepancies between simulated and actual occupant behaviour can offset the actual energy consumption by several orders of magnitude compared to simulation…
A mathematical model to simulate an unsaturated highly capacitive porous medium on roof (sand) is considered in order to predict its effects on building…
The pollution problems caused by fungi in indoor environments are usually recognized at a stage where colony formation has progressed to a level already…
We present a new analysis and optimisation procedure to aid decision-making regarding Combined Heat and Power (CHP) and Combined Cooling, Heat and Power (…
This paper describes the implementation of the room heat transfer model in the free open-source Modelica “Buildings” library. The model can be used as a…
This paper describes the investigation of the existing VRF system renewal using energy simulation. Both the renewal to the latest VRF systems and to proper…
This study presents optimal control strategies of the system using a Generalized Pattern Search and Genetic Algorithm. Then, the aforementioned two…
This study is aimed to implement Augmented Reality (AR) and web-enabled control for a double-skin system. The AR was realized using a marker, a webcam,…
Two globally applicable energy indices, Climate Energy Index (CEI) and Building Energy Index (BEI) were developed as a means of quantifying the climate…
This paper reports a recent longitudinal study observing people’s use of windows in cellular office spaces and suggests that the thermal environmental…
In this research, a new energy-saving design method and a design-aided program MEESG (Most-Energy-Efficient-Scheme-Generator) are…
This paper proposes an approach to identify the coefficients of the chiller model used by the EnergyPlus program. Data collected every 15 minutes from an…
Building energy systems often consume 20% more energy than is necessary due to system deviation from the design intent. Identifying the root causes of…
This study proposed the Tikhonov regularization strategy coupled with the least-squares optimization to identify unsteady gas release processes from a fixed…
This paper describes the basic features of a new advanced human thermal model (HTM), which is integrated with a building simulation tool. The thermal…
This paper presents the evaluation of energy and exergy performance of several design alternatives of residential heating systems for a house. All component…