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Accepted Manuscript
Publisher: ASME
Article Type: Research Papers
J. Eng. Sustain. Bldgs. Cities.
Paper No: JESBC-24-1051
Published Online: November 21, 2024
..., and cooling water. Simulating them involves discretization and solving comprehensive partial differential mass and energy balance equations to capture the interconnected heat and mass transfer phenomena. The models require detailed dehumidifier information, are computationally expensive, and pose challenges...
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Publisher: ASME
Article Type: Research Papers
J. Eng. Sustain. Bldgs. Cities. August 2024, 5(3): 031003.
Paper No: JESBC-24-1025
Published Online: August 12, 2024
... of the study, the impacts of highly reflecting, cool roofs were evaluated using base case and proposed simulations. In the second phase, a comparison was made between the possible energy savings that may be obtained by switching from low to high solar reflective roofs. An analysis of the reflectance...
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Publisher: ASME
Article Type: Research Papers
J. Eng. Sustain. Bldgs. Cities. May 2024, 5(2): 021002.
Paper No: JESBC-23-1048
Published Online: April 5, 2024
...M. Keith Sharp This study reports the development of extreme meteorological year (XMY) data for simulating buildings that are heated and cooled entirely by ambient energy in four climates varying in outdoor temperature and cloudiness. Electrification of conventional buildings is insufficient...
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Publisher: ASME
Article Type: Research Papers
J. Eng. Sustain. Bldgs. Cities. November 2023, 4(4): 041007.
Paper No: JESBC-23-1028
Published Online: January 8, 2024
... systems simulation smart buildings smart cities sustainability thermodynamics “The data collected shows that disaster displacement is a global issue that affects high and low-income countries alike. An average of 24 million new displacements a year were recorded between 2008 and 2018, three...
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Publisher: ASME
Article Type: Research Papers
J. Eng. Sustain. Bldgs. Cities. November 2023, 4(4): 041004.
Paper No: JESBC-23-1031
Published Online: December 18, 2023
... inherent to solar radiation and thermal heat collection will decrease. The passive heating potential will decrease from 46.6% to 30.1% and auxiliary heating from 10.5% to 4%. Fig. 10 Case study: simulation adjustment values Case study: simulation adjustment values Fourteen passive strategies...
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Publisher: ASME
Article Type: Research Papers
J. Eng. Sustain. Bldgs. Cities. August 2023, 4(3): 031005.
Paper No: JESBC-23-1011
Published Online: October 3, 2023
... and airflow distribution from natural ventilation in more complex building geometries such as those with an atrium. This study used the energy-simulation-coupled computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method to predict the indoor temperatures of a typical multi-story, open-floorplan office building with a central...
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Publisher: ASME
Article Type: Research Papers
J. Eng. Sustain. Bldgs. Cities. August 2023, 4(3): 031004.
Paper No: JESBC-23-1027
Published Online: September 8, 2023
...Mariana Migliori; Hamidreza Najafi The building sector is responsible for the largest portion of the total energy consumption in the United States. Conventional physics-based building energy models (BEMs) consider all of the building characteristics in order to accurately simulate their energy...
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Publisher: ASME
Article Type: Research Papers
J. Eng. Sustain. Bldgs. Cities. February 2023, 4(1): 011001.
Paper No: JESBC-22-1015
Published Online: January 24, 2023
... would significantly change the ESS value stream to include solar power shifting benefit. Further, there would be less benefit to water transfer from the 55” station during peak solar production. For these simulations, a quadratic pumping efficiency, whole zone model including both ESS and DSM were used...
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Publisher: ASME
Article Type: Research Papers
J. Eng. Sustain. Bldgs. Cities. November 2022, 3(4): 041002.
Paper No: JESBC-22-1014
Published Online: December 20, 2022
... not possess the knowledge to work with physics-based models (e.g., eQUEST) and therefore the initial BEM may no longer be of use to them. In the present paper, an approach is proposed and assessed through which a physics-based model is developed using eQUEST and simulated for several different operating...
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Publisher: ASME
Article Type: Research Papers
J. Eng. Sustain. Bldgs. Cities. May 2022, 3(2): 021002.
Paper No: JESBC-21-1038
Published Online: July 13, 2022
... (Aw, Af, and As) and temperate (Cfa and Cfb) climates. The energy consumption using air-filled IGU was compared to its non-insulated version through computer simulation in E nergy P lus . This sample demonstrated that IGU could generate annual savings in cooling consumption in tropical climates (up...
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Publisher: ASME
Article Type: Research Papers
J. Eng. Sustain. Bldgs. Cities. August 2021, 2(3): 031002.
Paper No: JESBC-21-1002
Published Online: July 14, 2021
... that is less than or equal to IECC 2018 requirements [ 37 , 38 ]. Therefore, the IECC 2018 baseline home is used as the baseline for these analyses. The baseline home is updated with EEMs to simulate an efficient, resilient community for each city. The first alternative community is in a suburb of Chicago...
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Publisher: ASME
Article Type: Research Papers
J. Eng. Sustain. Bldgs. Cities. August 2021, 2(3): 031001.
Paper No: JESBC-21-1005
Published Online: June 28, 2021
... with a convex approximation of the original nonconvex problem. The planner uses a descent and convergent method, with the underlying optimization problem being feasible and convex. A yearlong simulation with a realistic plant shows that both of the features of the proposed architecture—periodic model...
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Publisher: ASME
Article Type: Research Papers
J. Eng. Sustain. Bldgs. Cities. February 2021, 2(1): 011004.
Paper No: JESBC-20-1021
Published Online: February 1, 2021
.... A simulation model that is used to generate about 250 GB of data is used to evaluate the performance of various algorithms. 8 https://openei.org/doe-opendata/dataset/commercial-and-residential-hourly-load-profiles-for-all-tmy3-locations-in-the-united-states 9 energyplus is another building...
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Publisher: ASME
Article Type: Research Papers
J. Eng. Sustain. Bldgs. Cities. November 2020, 1(4): 041006.
Paper No: JESBC-20-1023
Published Online: December 2, 2020
... the grid during on-peak hours, while maintaining PV panel efficiency in terms of the amount of solar radiation received. In this article, we present a framework that identifies the ideal location of PV panels on residential rooftops. Our framework combines energy and environmental simulation, parametric...
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Publisher: ASME
Article Type: Research Papers
J. Eng. Sustain. Bldgs. Cities. February 2021, 2(1): 011002.
Paper No: JESBC-20-1026
Published Online: November 23, 2020
... algorithms through simulation. Many high-fidelity simulation testbeds exist, but they tend to be complex and opaque to users. Simpler, more transparent testbeds also exist, but they tend to neglect important nonlinearities and disturbances encountered in practice. In this paper, we develop a simulation...
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Publisher: ASME
Article Type: Research Papers
J. Eng. Sustain. Bldgs. Cities. February 2020, 1(1): 011001.
Paper No: JESBC-19-1041
Published Online: October 10, 2019
... the thermal efficiency of data centers using a simulation-based approach. Here, simulation is used to model and optimize a proposed research data center for use as an environment to test equipment and investigate best practices and strategies such as containment and hybrid cooling. The optimization technique...