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Energies, 2022 Urban building energy modeling (UBEM) is a practical approach in large-scale building energy modeling for stakeholders in the energy industry to predict energy use in the building sector under different design and retrofit scenarios. UBEM is a relatively
Ehsan Kamel
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A framework for producing gbXML building geometry from Point Clouds for accurate and efficient Building Energy Modelling [PDF]
, 2018 The industrial sector accounts for 17% of end-use energy in the United Kingdom, and 54% globally. Therefore, there is substantial scope to accurately simulate and efficiently assess potential energy retrofit options for industrial buildings to lower end ...
Calautit, J.K. +5 more
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IET Renewable Power Generation, 2023 The thermal inertia of a building envelope endows a building with a heat storage capability, introducing scheduling flexibility to a building energy microgrid (BEM). The flexibility is usually modelled as virtual energy storage (VES) and used to optimize
Yunfei Mu +6 more
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Overheating assessment in Passivhaus dwellings: the influence of prediction tools
Buildings & Cities, 2022 Thermal comfort during the summer in the Passivhaus concept relies mainly on natural ventilation to provide indoor cooling. Do airflow modeling tools accurately predict overheating in summer and for anticipated warmer climates?
Vitor Leite Goncalves +3 more
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Atmosphere, 2022 Urban canopy models (UCMs) in mesoscale numerical weather prediction models need evaluation to understand biases in urban environments under a range of conditions.
Eric A. Hendricks, Jason C. Knievel
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State of the Art in the Optimisation of Wind Turbine Performance Using CFD [PDF]
, 2019 Wind energy has received increasing attention in recent years due to its sustainability and geographically wide availability. The efficiency of wind energy utilisation highly depends on the performance of wind turbines, which convert the kinetic energy ...
Haghnegahdar, Mohammad Amin +5 more
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Logistics, Supply Chain, Sustainability and Global Challenges, 2022 In designing eco-buildings, windows play a big part in minimizing the energy load. There has not been any easy-to-use software to speed up the process, even after many recent studies about environment-friendly window size, shading, position, and material.
BOLOORCHI Fatemeh
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A Novel Approach for Optimizing Building Energy Models Using Machine Learning Algorithms
Energies, 2023 The current practice with building energy simulation software tools requires the manual entry of a large list of detailed inputs pertaining to the building characteristics, geographical region, schedule of operation, end users, occupancy, control aspects,
Benjamin Kubwimana, Hamidreza Najafi
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A Multi-criteria Framework for Decision Process in Retrofit Optioneering through Interactive Data Flow [PDF]
, 2017 Aim of this research is to deliver a system of procedures and instruments that allows comparing different scenarios of restoration and retrofit of existing buildings applicable each time a relevant decision about the asset has to be made.
Chiara, +4 more
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CFD and aeroelastic analysis of the MEXICO wind turbine [PDF]
, 2014 This paper presents an aerodynamic and aeroelastic analysis of the MEXICO wind turbine, using the compressible HMB solver of Liverpool. The aeroelasticity of the blade, as well as the effect of a low-Mach scheme were studied for the zero-yaw 15m/s wind ...
Barakos, G. +5 more
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