期刊: JOURNAL OF BUILDING PERFORMANCE SIMULATION, 2021; 14 (3)
It is challenging to accurately establish the dynamic heat transfer model of the internal thermal mass owing to the irregular shape. In building energ......
期刊: JOURNAL OF BUILDING PERFORMANCE SIMULATION, 2021; 14 (5)
Current housing unit design focuses on performance optimization, such as building energy use, daylighting, and occupant comfort. There is significant ......
期刊: JOURNAL OF BUILDING PERFORMANCE SIMULATION, 2020; 13 (6)
This study presents a new integration of air-source heat pumps, solar collectors, and phase change material tanks regarding the dynamics of outdoor sw......
期刊: JOURNAL OF BUILDING PERFORMANCE SIMULATION, 2020; 13 (1)
Building integrated solar thermal (BIST) systems have attracted more and more attention in researches and applications. The transient thermal performa......
期刊: JOURNAL OF BUILDING PERFORMANCE SIMULATION, 2020; 13 (3)
Event-driven optimal control was recently developed for central air-conditioning systems to speed up the response of optimal control to irregular chan......
期刊: JOURNAL OF BUILDING PERFORMANCE SIMULATION, 2019; 12 (2)
Cooling loss during transmission from cooling sources (chillers) to cooling end-users (conditioned zones) is prevalent in HVAC systems. At the HVAC de......
期刊: JOURNAL OF BUILDING PERFORMANCE SIMULATION, 2018; 11 (2)
Realtime and precise control strategies for indoor micro-climate are increasingly needed due to the requirements of thermal comfort and energy consump......
期刊: JOURNAL OF BUILDING PERFORMANCE SIMULATION, 2018; 11 (1)
Most of the local pressure loss coefficient (LPLC) models for duct fittings used in heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) air-side system t......
期刊: JOURNAL OF BUILDING PERFORMANCE SIMULATION, 2018; 11 (4)
The control of indoor air quality and thermal comfort requires faster-than-real-time simulations of air distribution. One approach to achieve such sim......
期刊: JOURNAL OF BUILDING PERFORMANCE SIMULATION, 2018; 11 (5)
A ventilated wall module is an outdoor air-intake device that can clean the drawn air, reduce heat loss or gain, and insulate outdoor noises. It conta......
期刊: JOURNAL OF BUILDING PERFORMANCE SIMULATION, 2017; 10 (3)
The computational fluid dynamics (CFD)-based adjoint method may be appropriate for the inverse design of indoor environments, considering both accurac......
期刊: JOURNAL OF BUILDING PERFORMANCE SIMULATION, 2017; 10 (5-6)
The inherent properties of occupant behaviour, namely dynamics and instantaneity in affecting indoor thermal environment, call for special treatments ......