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Proceedings of eSim 2002: 2nd Conference of IBPSA-Canada

     

MODELLING OF HYBRID BUILDING COMPONENTS WITH R-C NETWORKS IN MACRO ELEMENTS

Dietrich Schmidt

Abstract: This paper presents an effective method for thermal analysis of special building constructions, hybrid systems, and the way in which the resulting mathematical models can be implemented in a commonly used dynamic computer simulation program. The advantage of this method is the fact that only a limited number of nodes are required to obtain reliable results for the simulation. The modelling method is described in detail and the work of two different case studies is presented. Research has been conducted on this method (Jóhannesson 1981, Mao 1997, Akander 2000), and it has been expanded and used on a different class of constructions, hybrid systems. It is essential to estimate the thermal behaviour of the whole building as a system and to open up the research knowledge in this field to a broader audience of building designers, architects and engineers. The presented method could be one step further towards this goal.
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