International Building Simulation Conference 2013, Chambéry, France.
Contains 470 papers.
Volume content
With the present drive to add renewable generation capacity to existing electrical networks, utility providers are seeking ways to store electrical energy…
This paper discusses the use of a high-resolution code based on the discontinuous Galerkin method (DGM) for the direct numerical simulation (DNS) of natural…
The computational cost for the repeated evaluation of zonal-type building simulation models can be pro-hibitive especially in contexts, such as Building…
The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect is a well-documented phenomenon, in which the air-temperature in an urban area is elevated relative to the regional air-…
Heat demand management through demand shifting will be crucial to enable load balancing in a future electricity grid with large domestic heating loads.…
This paper introduces a new software developed for building performance optimization. MOBO is a generic freeware able to handle single and multi-objective…
Thermally activated building systems (TABS) provide high temperature cooling and low temperature heating which has a better efficiency compared to…
An urban microclimate model including air flow, heat and moisture transport in porous urban surfaces and solar and longwave radiation is presented,…
Poorly functioning and tuned control systems are a frequent source of building underperformance. Simulation can be an excellent method to study building…
Techniques that improve solar reflectivity of urban surfaces to mitigate urban heat island phenomenon have become widespread with the use of highly-…
Three versions (type 1, 2 and 3) of untypical climate data based on the Weather Year for Energy Calculations 2 (WYEC2) methodology were calculated. The…
This paper presents a methodology for optimizing skylight design with the considerations of thermal comfort, daylight availability and energy performance by…
The contribution focuses on the simulate-based design and optimization of photovoltaic (PV)-driven cooling systems for residential buildings in hot and dry…