Building Energy Performance Modelling and Simulation
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "G: Energy and Buildings".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 714
Special Issue Editors
Interests: smart heating and ventilation systems in building; building performance simulation; optimization models for building thermal design; microclimate in buildings; IEQ assessment; LCC in buildings
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Interests: energy consumption modelling; thermal comfort; climate change; greenhouse gas emissions; artificial intelligence; metaheuristic methods
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Interests: human thermal physiology; thermal comfort; clothing modelling; thermal interaction within human-clothing-environment system
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change and, at the same time, the increasing expectations of building users regarding thermal comfort have led to an increase in energy consumption in buildings. The construction sector is the largest energy consumer and therefore poses significant scientific challenges. Understanding the relationship between a building, its systems, and the needs of occupants is key to dramatically reducing energy consumption in buildings. The development in the field of information technology creates great opportunities for predicting and optimising the parameters of a building, determining the indoor environment quality and energy consumption. Since the mid-1960s, simulation techniques and software have been developed to improve the optimisation of indoor parameters with changing outdoor air parameters. Building performance simulation (BPS) plays an essential role in meeting the requirements of high-performance and energy-efficient building design. The applications of building simulation are not limited to calculations at the design stage, but include predicting the performance of a building in real operating conditions, as well as predicting occupants’ thermal sensations and conditions of thermal and visual comfort, and indoor air quality. BPS methods based on macroscale models are complemented by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods for detailed analysis of the distribution of air parameters in the room, which allows, for example, for the assessment of local human thermal sensations or the distribution of pollutants in the zone.
We invite you to publish original articles on the theory, design, development, and applications of building and indoor environment quality modelling and simulation. The topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:
- Developments in simulation
- Modelling and simulation of:
- Energy demand for HVAC systems;
- Thermal comfort;
- Thermal sensation;
- Indoor air quality;
- Visual comfort;
- Human behaviour;
- Greenhouse gas emissions;
- Life cycle costs.
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation
- Validation, calibration, and uncertainty
- Optimisation
- Building Information Modelling (BIM) and digital twins for indoor environmental quality (IEQ) analysis
- New software development
Dr. Joanna Ferdyn-Grygierek
Dr. Krzysztof Grygierek
Dr. Agnes Psikuta
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- building
- building performance simulation
- CFD
- validation
- modelling
- optimisation
- energy consumption
- thermal comfort
- thermal sensation
- visual comfort
- BIM
