Conference


Proceedings of Building Simulation 1995: 4th Conference of IBPSA

BS 1995 Madison, Wisconsin, USA August 14-16, 1995

List of topics



Moisture in building



THE EFFECT OF WATER VAPOUR TRANSFERS ON NATURAL CONVECTION IN BUILDING CAVITIES
D.J. Close, H. Suehrcke, A. Masatto
SIMULATION OF MOISTURE TRANSPORT TO ASSESS DURABILITY ASPECTS OF COMPOSITE WALLS
E.H. Tumbuan. G. L.M. Augenbroe
SIMULTANEOUS MODELLING OF HEAT AND MOISTURE TRANSFER AND AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEM IN BUILDINGS
Francis W. H. Yikt, C.P. Underwood, W. K. Chow
MANUFACTURED HOUSING WALLS THAT PROVIDE SATISFACTORY MOISTURE PERFORMANCE
D. M. Burch, A. TenWolde



Advanced simulation methods



SYNCHRONOUS GENERATION OF HOMOLOGOUS REPRESENTATIONS IN AN ACTIVE, MULTI-ASPECT DESIGN ENVIRONMENT
Ardeshir Mahdavi, Paul Mathew
A TRANSLATOR FROM NMF TO SPARK
Jean-Michel Nataf
FUTURE TRENDS OF THE NEUTRAL MODEL FORMAT (NMF)
Per Sahlin, Axel Bring, Kjell Kolsaker
GENERATING REDUCED MODAL MODELS OF BUILDINGS FOR ALLAN (TM) SIMULATION
Gilles Lefevbre, Jean Michel Nataf, Abdelhakim Oulefki, Alexandre Jeandel, Emmanuel Givois, Patricia Briand, Olivia Noel



Airflow in building



NUMERICAL MODELLING OF AIR FLOWS IN BUILDING AND DESIGN OF A DATA BASE OF EXPERIMENTS
P. Depecker, J. virgone, G. Rusaouën
A WIND PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION CALCULATION PROGRAM FOR MULTIZONE AIRFLOW MODELS
Mario Grosso, Donatella Marino, Elisabetta Parisi
IMPLICATIONS OF ROOM AIR MOTION ON CONTROL OF THERMAL COMFORT IN ROOMS WITH NATURAL CONVECTION HEAT SOURCES
Brian Krafthefer, Dipak J. Shah
AIR FLOWS PATTERN AND TEMPERATURE FIELD SIMULATION IN A LARGE GLAZED SPACE
M. Lefeuvre, D. Groleau, C. Marenne



Airflow in Rooms



A MODEL OF A DISPLACEMENT VENTILATION SYSTEM SUITABLE FOR SYSTEM SIMULATION
Simon J. Rees, Philip Haves
COMPUTER SIMULATION OF THE IMPACT OF CO²-BASED VENTILATION CONTROL
Radu Zmeureanu, Fariborz Haghighat
MULTIZONE MODELING OF THREE RESIDENTIAL NDOOR AIR QUALITY CONTROL OPTIONS
Steven J. Emmerich, Andrew K. Persily
CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER IN ROOMS
A. Hatton, H. B. Awbi



Applications



TRANSFERING COMPUTER BASED ENERGY ANALYSIS TOOLS TO PRACTICE: THE WHYS OF SIMPLIFICATION
Ilari Aho
TRANSFERRING SIMULATION TECHNIQUES TO END-USERS APPICATIONS TO TRNSYS
Roger Pelletret, Souheil Soubra, Werner Keilholz
OPPORTUNISTIC SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
Robert C. sonderegger
BUILDING SIMULATION IN APPLICATION
Matthias Schuler



Building performance



ON SYSTEM SIMULATION FOR BUILDING PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
Jan Hensen
A CONFIRMATION TECHNIQUE FOR THERMAL PERFORMANCE SIMULATION MODELS
T. J. Williamson
ZERO -ENERGY HOUSE IN THE NETHERLANDS
Wim. Gilijamse
DECISION SUPPORT TOLLS FOR BUILDING CODE ENERGY EFFICIENCY COMPLIANCE
Michael Donn, Jacky Lee, Nigel Isaacs, P. Bannister



Calibration of simulation models



USING DATA VISUALIZATION TOOLS FOR THE CALIBRATION OF HOURLY DOE-2.1 SIMULATIONS
James A. McCray, Patrick L. Bailey, Jedd L. Parker, Richard Gillman
DEVELOPMENT OF A DATABASE OF BUILDING ENVELOPE RETROFITS
Drury B. Crawley
AN IMPROVED PROCEDURE FOR DEVELOPING CALIBRATED HOURLY SIMULATION MODELS
Tarek E. Bou-Saada, Jeff S. Haberl
COMPARISON OF COST AND ENERGY SAVING IN AN EXISTING LARGE BUILDING AS PREDICTED BY THREE SIMULATION PROGRAMS
Radu Zmeureanu, Lora pasqualetto, frederic Bilas



Calibration of simulation programs



EMPIRICAL VALIDATION OF THREE THERMAL SIMULATION PROGRAMS USING DATA FROM A PASSIVE SOLAR BUILDING
Herbert Eppel, kevin J. Lomas
NEW TECHNIQUES FOR VALIDATING BUILDING ENERGY SIMULATION PROGRAMS
D. Bloomfield, Y. Candau, P. Dalicieux, S. Delille, S. Hammond, K.J. Lomas
WITH WHAT CONFIDENCE CAN AN ARCHITECT USE A CFD CODES PACKAGE AS A BUILDING ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN TOOL ? CASE STUDY OF THE SEARCH FOR AN INDONESIAN ROOF CHIMNEY
M. Donn, Prasasto Satwiko
STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS VERSUS DETERMINISTIC ONES: ADVANTAGES AND DRAWBACKS
Elena Palomo, Gilles Lefebvre



Daylighting



A SIMULATION APPROACH TO DETERMINE A VISUAL COMFORT INDEX INCLUDING DAYLIGHT FOR ADEQUATE BUILDING PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
Friedrich Sick
SIMULATION OF SKY LUMINANCE DISTRIBUTION FOR DAYLIGHTING STUDIES
Kathryn Davies, Marinus van der Voorden
ADVANCING LIGHTING AND DAYLIGHTING SIMULATION: THE TRANSITION FORM ANALYSIS TO DESIGN AID TOOLS
Robert J. Hitchcock



Error analysis and fault detection



AN ERROR ANALYSIS METHOD APPLIED TO A BUILDING SIMULATIONSOFTWARE: AN EXAMPLE OF APPLICATION AND ITS RESULTS
L. Tabary
UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS IN BUILDING THERMAL MODELLING
M.S de Wit
FAULT IDENTIFICATION IN AIR HANDLING UNITS USING PHYSICAL MODELS AND NEURAL NETWORKS
Ruxandra Dumitru, Dominique Marchio
GENERIC MODELLING OF HVAC PLANT FOR FAULT DIAGNOSIS
Arthur L. DExter, Mourad Benouarets



Heat transfer



ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF DYNAMIC INSULATION
Petter Wallenten
THERMAL BRIDGE ASSESSMENTS
P. A. Strachan, A. Nakhi, C. Sanders
THERMAL BRIDGE ASSESSMENTS
P. Strachan, A. Nakhi, C. Sanders
MODELLING AND DIMENSIONING A HOT WATER FLOOR HEATING SYSTEM
D. Caccavelli, B. Bedouani, J. Baude
PARAMETER IDENTIFICATION TO ANALYSE HEAT INSULATION MEASUREMENTS
Olaf Gutscker, Harald Rogab, Andreas Donath



HVAC modeling



HOW TO OVERCOME THE HVAC SIMULATION OBSTACLES
Madjid Madjidi, Michael Bauer
MODELLING OF GAS-FIRED BOILER SYSTEMS FOR BUILDING/HVAC PLANT SIMULATION
V. I. Hanby, G. Li
GENERALIZATION IN PLANT COMPONENT MODELLING
T. T. Chow
DETAILED MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF A VAV AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEM
Philip. Haves



HVAC/Control



AN INTEGRATED APPROACH FOR ENERGY SAVING AND CONTROL OPTIMISATION OF CENTRALIZED AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEM
Shegwei Wang, John Burnett
GYMNASIUM FRESH AIR PREHEATING
A. Trombe, L. Serres
INTELLIGENT COMPUTER CONTROL OF AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEMS BASED ON GENETIC ALGORITHM AND CLASSIFIER SYSTEM
H. N. Lam
NIGHT VENTILATION FOR COOLING PURPOSES PARTI – REFERENCE BUILDING AND SIMULATION MODEL
Janet X. Ren, Jan-Olf Dalenbäck



Illumination



LIGHTPAD 2.0 A PORTABLE AUDIT AND DESIGN (PAD) TOOL FOR EVALUATION RETROFIT LIGHITING OPTIONS
Karl F. Johson, G. Kimball Hart, Tom McDougall
THE APPLICATION, VALIDATION AND FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF RADIANCE: SOME UK ACTIVITIES
John Mardaljevic, Kevin J. Lomas
A GENERATIVE SIMULATION TOOL FOR ARCHITECTURAL LIGHITNG
Ardeshir Mahdavi, Liana Berberidou-Kallivoka



Integration of design and simulation methods



SOME EXPERIMENTS ON IMPLEMENTING COLLABORATIVE BUILDING DESIGN ENVIRONMENTS
Y. Z. Chen, D. Robinson, I. Frame
BUILDING ENERGY AND SYSTEM SIMULATION PROGRAMS: MODEL DEVELOPMENT, COUPLING AND INTEGRATION
G. Zweifel, V. Dorer, M. Koschenz, A. Weber
MAPPINGS FOR INTEGRATING DESIGN TOOLS
Robert Amor, John Hosking
MODELING OFFICE BUILDING WITH DOE-2
Tim Steele



Integration of simulation and design tools



AN INTERACTIVE ENERGY DESIGN AND SIMULATION TOOL FOR BUILDING DESIGNERS
Veronica I. Soebarto, Larry O. Degelman
INTEGRATION OF BUILDING ENERGY SIMULATION AND HVAC DESIGN TOOLS IN THE COMBINE PROJECT
Marc Mellotte, JimFlynn , Paul F. Monaghan
THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTELLIGENT, INTEGRATED BUILDING DESIGN SYSTEM WITHIN THE EUROPEAN COMBINE PROJECT
J. A. Clarke, J. Hand, D. F. Mac Randal, Strachan
INTEGRATING DESIGN TOOLS INTO THE DESIGN PROCESS
Damiam Mac Randal



Simulation methodology



DESCRIPTION INDUCED BY MODELISATION METHODS IN THE CASE OF BUILDING THERMAL SIMULATION
Harry Boyer, François Garde, Alfred Lauret, Jean Brau
BUILDING SIMULATION IN A MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT
Andreas K. Athienitis
A SELF-EMERGING DYMANIC SIMULATION MODEL ON A MICROCHIP
L. Jankovic
A STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY FOR MODEL VALIDATION THE ALLAN.SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT
Maria del Mar Izquierdo, Gilles Lefebvre, Elena Palomo, Fabrice Boudaud, Alexandre Jeandel
THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS ALGORITHM WITHIN THE ESP-R SYSTEM
J. A. Clarke, W. M. Dempster, C. Negrão
SIMULATION AND REASONING: INTELLIGENT BUILDING THERMAL PROBLEM DETECTION
Ali M. Malkwi
A DYNAMIC HYPERMEDIA INTERFACE MODEL FOR ENERGY DESIGN IN BUILDING
Khaled A. Al-Sallal, Larry O. Degelman
HVAC COMPONENT MODEL LIBRARIES FOR EQUATION-BASED SOLVERS
Edward F. Sowell



Simulation methods



AUTOMATIC GENETARION OF COMPLEX SIMULATION MODELS OF BUILDING WITH SOLAR HEATING SYSTEMS
Kim B. Wittchen, Soren Ostergaard Jensen, Kirsten Engeund Thomsen
DESIGN OF POWEDOE, A WINDOWS-BASEC VISUALLY ORIENTED ANALYSIS TOOL
J.J. Hirsch, F. C. Winkelmann, W. F. Buhl, K.L. Ellington, J.S. McMenamin, I. Rohmund, S.A. Criswell, A. Bhimani, B. Spurlock, D. J. borstein, K. F. Johnson
INCORPORATING A MODULAR SYSTEM SIMULATION PROGRAM INTO A LARGE ENERGY ANALYSIS PROGRAM: THE LINKING OF BLAST AND HVACSIM+
Ralph R. Metcalf, Russel D. Taylor, Curtis O. Pedersen, Richard J> Liesen, Daniel E. Fischer
A NEURAL NETWORK MODELLING APPROACH APPLIED TO ENERGY CONSERVATION RETROFITS
David A. Cohen, Moncef Krarti



Software Demonstrations



THE HEAT BALANCE LOADS CALCULATOR: A WINDOWS-BASED PROGRAM FOR CALCULATING HEATING AND COOLING LOADS FOR BUILDINGS
M.M. Pflaum, C. O. Pedersen, Linda Lawrie
SOFTWARE FOR WINDOW SOLAR GAIN ANALYSIS
Ross McCluney
ISLEC : A SELF-EMERGING DYMANIC SIMULATION MODEL
L. Jankovic
POWERDOE, A WINDOWS-BASED VISUALLY ORIENTED ANALYSIS TOOL
J. J. Hirsch, F. C. Winkelmann, W. F. Buhl, K. L. Ellington, J. S. McMenamin, I. Rohmund, S. A. Criswell, A. Bhimani, B. Spurlock, D. J. Borstein, K. F. Johnson
CONTAM94: A MULTIZONE AIRFLOW AND CONTAMINANT DISPERSAL MODEL WITH A GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE
George N. Walton
DOE BUILDING TOOLS DEMONSTRATIONS
Drury B. Crawley
MARKETMANAGER FOR WINDOWS
Robert C. Sonderegger
IDA- AN ENVIRONMENT FOR BUILDING AND ENERGY SYSTEMS SIMULATION
Axel Bring, Lars Eriksson, Harald Hermansson, Magnus Lindgren, Per Sahlin
SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION FOR ENER-WIN: A VISUAL INTERFACE MODEL FOR HOURLY ENERGY SIMULATION IN BUILDINGS
Larry O. Degelman, Veronica I. Soebarto
LOANSTAR PUBLIC DOMAIN SOFTWARE FOR DATA ANALYSIS AND DATA VIEWING
Jeff Haberl, David Claridge, Robert Sparks, Kelly Kissock
BASECALC (TM): NEW SOFTWARE FOR MODELLING BASEMENT AND SLAB-ON-GRADE HEAT LOSSES
Ian Beausoleil-Morrison, Gintas Mitalas, Cathy McLarnon
DEMONSTRATION OF TRNSYS USE IN BUILDING SIMULATIONS
N. J. Blair, J. W. Mitchell, W. A. Beckman



Storage



EVALUATION OF PASSIVE COOLING STRATEGIES FOR ISRAEL
S. Hassid
THE INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE ON THE HEAT TRANSFER FROM EARTH-SHELTERED BUILDING
Teresa Forowicz
A SIMULATION MODEL APPLIED TO CLIMATIZATION PLANT PERFOMANCE ANALYSIS IN PRESENCE OF THERMAL STORAGE
Luigi Schibuola
SIMULATION OF RADIATION INDUCED MELTING AND SOLIDIFICATION IN THE BULK OF A TRANSLUCENT BUILDING FAÇADE
Heinrich Manz, Peter W. Egolf



Training in simulation methods



RECENT EXPERIENCES AND DEVLOPMENT IN THE TRAINING OS SIMULATION
J. W. Hand, J. L. M. Henses
COMPUTER-AIDED TRAINIG OF BIOCLIMATIC ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
Melita G. Tuschinski
TEACHING BUILDING SIMULATION WITH THE HELP OF GENERAL PURPOSE DYNAMICAL MODELLING SOFTWARE
Hans U. Fuchs, Martin Simon
A SIMPLIFIELD COUPLED MODEL FOR THERMAL BEHAVIOUR AND AIR FLOWS SIMULATION IN URBAN SPACES
F. Pignolet-Tardan, P. Depecker, J. C. Gatina