Study on Building Energy Efficiency Related to Simulation Models
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2024 | Viewed by 16777
Special Issue Editors
Interests: building simulation; district energy system; thermal comfort; data mining; climate change impacts; urban microclimate
Interests: computational building modeling and simulation; building performance evaluation; indoor occupant’s behavior
Interests: building simulation; building optimal control; demand response; HVAC; model predictive control
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Dear Colleagues,
Since the building sector accounts for a significant share of energy-related carbon emissions globally, research on improvements in building energy efficiency has received increasing interest in the past decades. Buildings, as a complex system per se, and the problems associated with their energy use have properties of nonlinearity, multicollinearity, and stochasticity, which entail cross-disciplinary knowledge and effort. The question of how to improve building energy efficiency without compromising the physical comfort for occupancy has yet to be fully addressed. Simulation techniques emerge as powerful methods that enable the exploration and resolution of these complicated problems related with energy efficiency in buildings, in contrast with traditional methods. Today, various simulation models—whether they are white box, black box, or grey box models—have been developed to understand the behavior and to promote the energy performance of building forms, building envelopes, HVAC systems, lighting systems, renewable energy systems, demand management, occupancy behavior, etc. Rapid advancements in simulation techniques shed light on methods for seeking buildings with better performance, higher energy efficiency, and buildings that induce less environmental impacts.
The goal of this Special Issue is to call for contributions that research opportunities in building energy saving and efficiency improvement by adopting various simulation techniques, including either analytical, empirical, or numerical models. I cordially invite authors to submit papers for consideration and publication in the Special Issue, “Study on Building Energy Efficiency Related to Simulation Models”. Topics may include but are not limited to the following:
- Energy-efficient building design based on performance simulation;
- High-efficiency building energy system and its modeling;
- Modeling and simulation of district energy systems;
- Onsite building renewable-energy system modeling and simulation;
- Simulation-based optimization problems related to building energy efficiency;
- Model predictive control for building system;
- Demand response in building and its modeling;
- Modeling and simulation of building occupancy behavior;
- Modeling of energy-efficient building envelope;
- Building retrofit assessments and optimizations based on simulations;
- Novel simulation method or tool for building energy performance evaluation;
- Implementation of simulation techniques for energy saving with respect to historical or vernacular buildings;
- Development of data driven proxy model and its comparison to simulation models;
- Simplified simulation methods and tools for rapid building performance evaluation;
- Development of urban-level building simulation technique;
- Simulation-based study on urban- or street-level building energy use and heat island;
- Use of computational fluid dynamics to achieve energy efficiency in buildings;
- Integrating or coupling other domains with energy simulation or modeling;
- Modeling and simulation on human behavior or individual responses;
- Modeling or simulating of new materials and systems.
Dr. Pengyuan Shen
Dr. Yunkyu Yi
Dr. Huilong Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- building simulation
- energy efficiency
- renewable energy system
- demand response
- occupancy behavior
- performance-driven design
- district energy system
- performance optimization
- HVAC system
- computational fluid dynamics
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