International Building Simulation Conference 2011, Sydney, Australia.
Contains 206 papers.
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In general, HVAC systems for clean room facility are required significant energy to maintain the required indoor environment. Due to high air change rates,…
The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between Indoor Environmental Quality index (IEQ): thermal comfort index and indoor temperature…
Numerous researches have shown the possibility to enhance indoor natural ventilation in buildings by using inclined solar chimneys, although most of them…
The objective of this paper is to present space heating strategies leading to a load reduction during critical periods on the grid but also taking into…
This paper presents the findings of an investigation of electricity consumption in mechanically cooled Nigerian office buildings.
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Low temperature heating and high temperature cool-ing systems such as thermally activated building sys-tems (TABS) offer the chance to use low exergy…
The Soccer World Cup in Qatar 2022 has started a discussion on thermal comfort in soccer stadia, particularly in hot and humid climates and their related…
This study investigates the feasibility of utilizing natural ventilation through operable windows to provide ventilation and summer cooling for an existing…
Swirl diffusers can create better air mixing to enhance indoor air quality and help achieve compliance with Green Star IEQ-2 through Air Change…
Model based exchange has the potential to improve the process of information exchange between different disciplines (Eastman, 2006), such as architect and…
Various building energy use modeling methods have been applied to existing buildings in order to understand building energy performance and improve energy…
This paper deals with the results of an investigation into the freecooling efficiency in a low energy building using a PCM/air heat exchanger coupled with…
This study presents a theoretical method that can quickly and accurately identify the locations and strengths of multiple constant contaminant sources…
This paper presents a novel methodology that aims at optimising energy flows and HVAC control in Sport and Recreation Buildings. The proposed methodology…
The aim of this work is to model the energy consumption and the on-site production of an existing building, the Leaf House (LH), that was designed in order…
This paper shows a new DSF modeling approach so-called a co-simulation of the heterogeneous systems. In this approach, the calibrated DSF MATLAB model…
CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) simulation is the main research method for assessing the wind environment around building complexes. Recent research…
To maintain good indoor air quality, this investigation proposes a prototype of an active breathing wall system, which is composed of a solar radiation…
Because of the complexity and diversification of today’s HVAC systems, Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD) systems have become necessary to reduce…
This paper presents a Simulation Domain Model (SimModel) - a new interoperable XML-based data model for the building simulation domain. SimModel provides a…