Building Simulation

Article	Citations
Challenges and opportunities for carbon neutrality in China’s building sector—Modelling and data	111
DeST 3.0: A new-generation building performance simulation platform	74
Archetype identification and urban building energy modeling for city-scale buildings based on GIS datasets	67
Multi-objective optimization of building design for life cycle cost and CO2 emissions: A case study of a low-energy residential building in a severe cold climate	61
Review on occupancy detection and prediction in building simulation	52
A real-time forecast of tunnel fire based on numerical database and artificial intelligence	51
Comprehensive energy, economic, environmental assessment of a building integrated photovoltaic-thermoelectric system with battery storage for net zero energy building	46
Individual thermal comfort prediction using classification tree model based on physiological parameters and thermal history in winter	43
Multi-objective optimization of thermochromic glazing based on daylight and energy performance evaluation	41
Energy and comfort performance of occupant-centric air conditioning strategy in office buildings with personal comfort devices	40
From occupants to occupants: A review of the occupant information understanding for building HVAC occupant-centric control	40
Federated learning-based short-term building energy consumption prediction method for solving the data silos problem	38
A novel deep generative modeling-based data augmentation strategy for improving short-term building energy predictions	37
Evaluating the impact of thermostat control strategies on the energy flexibility of residential buildings for space heating	37
Parametric study on the sleep thermal environment	34
Data-driven model predictive control for power demand management and fast demand response of commercial buildings using support vector regression	33
A probabilistic model to evaluate the effectiveness of main solutions to COVID-19 spreading in university buildings according to proximity and time-based consolidated criteria	32
Association between the infection probability of COVID-19 and ventilation rates: An update for SARS-CoV-2 variants	32
The effects of portable cooling systems on thermal comfort and work performance in a hot environment	30
Physics-based, data-driven approach for predicting natural ventilation of residential high-rise buildings	29
The energy performance and passive survivability of high thermal insulation buildings in future climate scenarios	27
Wind environment around the setback building models	26
Regression tree ensemble learning-based prediction of the heating and cooling loads of residential buildings	26
Room zonal location and activity intensity recognition model for residential occupant using passive-infrared sensors and machine learning	26
Automatic classification of rural building characteristics using deep learning methods on oblique photography	26

Quantitative distribution of human exhaled particles in a ventilation room	26
Intelligent windows for electricity generation: A technologies review	24
Turbulent flows over real heterogeneous urban surfaces: Wind tunnel experiments and Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes simulations	23
Comparison study of thermal comfort and energy saving under eight different ventilation modes for space heating	23
Evaluating the energy impact potential of energy efficiency measures for retrofit applications: A case study with U.S. medium office buildings	22
The challenges on operating a zero net energy building facing global warming conditions	22
Chinese prototype building models for simulating the energy performance of the nationwide building stock	22
An interactive approach to investigate brightness perception of daylighting in Immersive Virtual Environments: Comparing subjective responses and quantitative metrics	21
ROBOD, room-level occupancy and building operation dataset	21
Tradeoff between heating energy demand in winter and indoor overheating risk in summer constrained by building standards	21
Digital ID framework for human-centric monitoring and control of smart buildings	21
Energy saving potential of a fresh air pre-cooling system using radiative sky cooling	21
A framework for building energy management system with residence mounted photovoltaic	20
On COVID-19-safety ranking of seats in intercontinental commercial aircrafts: A preliminary multiphysics computational perspective	20
A multi agent-based optimal control method for combined cooling and power systems with thermal energy storage	19
Optimization of passive solar design and integration of building integrated photovoltaic/thermal (BIPV/T) system in northern housing	19
Asymmetric flow effect in a horizontal natural ventilated tunnel with different aspect ratios under the influence of longitudinal fire locations	19
Thermal comfort in winter incorporating solar radiation effects at high altitudes and performance of improved passive solar design—Case of Lhasa	19
Analysis of microclimate characteristics in solar greenhouses under natural ventilation	19
Exploring building’s envelope thermal behavior of the neo-vernacular residential architecture in a hot and dry climate region of Algeria	19
Evaluating the improvement effect of low-energy strategies on the summer indoor thermal environment and cooling energy consumption in a library building: A case study in a hot-humid and less-windy cit	18
Effects of side ratio for ‘Y’ plan shaped tall building under wind load	18
A cloud-based platform to predict wind pressure coefficients on buildings	17
Optimal design of building openings to reduce the risk of indoor respiratory epidemic infections	17
Review of onsite temperature and solar forecasting models to enable better building design and operations	17
Analysing user daylight preferences in heritage buildings using virtual reality	17
The analysis of the operational process of a complex fire alarm system used in transport facilities	17
An improved wall-mounted displacement ventilation system in a large-span machining workshop	17
Application and evaluation of a pattern-based building energy model calibration method using public building datasets	17
Analysis of the effect of passive measures on the energy consumption and zero-energy prospects of residential buildings in Pakistan	17
Multi-sensor information fusion based control for VAV systems using thermal comfort constraints	17
Development of a key-variable-based parallel HVAC energy predictive model	17
Numerical evaluation of enhanced green infrastructures for mitigating urban heat in a desert urban setting	17
A backpropagation neural network improved by a genetic algorithm for predicting the mean radiant temperature around buildings within the long-term period of the near future	17
Occupancy-aided ventilation for airborne infection risk control: Continuously or intermittently reduced occupancies?	16
Numerical study on indoor environment and thermal comfort in train station waiting hall with two different air-conditioning modes	16
Thermal performance of lightweight concrete applications in building envelopes in Lebanon	16
A novel point source oxygen supply method for sleeping environment improvement at high altitudes	16
Evaluation and comparison of various fast fluid dynamics modeling methods for predicting airflow around buildings	15
Validation of virtual sensor-assisted Bayesian inference-based in-situ sensor calibration strategy for building HVAC systems	15
Impact of different human walking patterns on flow and contaminant dispersion in residential kitchens: Dynamic simulation study	15
Evaluate the impact of sensor accuracy on model performance in data-driven building fault detection and diagnostics using Monte Carlo simulation	15
Development of a bioheat model for older people under hot and cold exposures	15
Energy-saving and economic analysis of passive radiative sky cooling for telecommunication base station in China	15
Monitoring the green evolution of vernacular buildings based on deep learning and multi-temporal remote sensing images	15
A modified universal pedestrian motion model: Revisiting pedestrian simulation with bottlenecks	15
Smart luminescent solar concentrator as a BICPV window	15
Experimental and numerical investigation of TVOC concentrations and ventilation dilution in enclosed train cabin	14
Developing occupant archetypes within urban low-income housing: A case study in Mumbai, India	14
Numerical studies on issues of Re-independence for indoor airflow and pollutant dispersion within an isolated building	14

Metamodeling and multicriteria analysis for sustainable and passive residential building refurbishment: A case study of French housing stock	14
Using urban building energy modeling to quantify the energy performance of residential buildings under climate change	14
Physiological and subjective thermal responses to heat exposure in northern and southern Chinese people	14
The influence of airtightness on contaminant spread in MURBs in cold climates	14
Assessment and simulation of evacuation in large railway stations	14
A low-resistance elbow with a bionic sawtooth guide vane in ventilation and air conditioning systems	14
Online differential pressure reset method with adaptive adjustment algorithm for variable chilled water flow control in central air-conditioning systems	14
Data-driven sensitivity analysis and electricity consumption prediction for water source heat pump system using limited information	14
Modeling chemical releases from building materials: The search for extended validity domain and parsimony	14
Unsteady RANS simulation of wind flow around a building shape obstacle	13
Model-based adaptive controller for personalized ventilation and thermal comfort in naturally ventilated spaces	13
Predicting indoor particle dispersion under dynamic ventilation modes with high-order Markov chain model	13
Characteristic studies of heat sources and performance analysis of free-cooling assisted air conditioning and ventilation systems for working faces of mineral mines	13
A global typical meteorological year (TMY) database on ERA5 dataset	13
A demand side management approach to increase self-consumption in buildings	13
Evaluating the different boundary conditions to simulate airflow and heat transfer in Double-Skin Facade	13
A building energy models calibration methodology based on inverse modelling approach	13
Heat and mass transfer model optimization and annual energy efficiency analysis for energy recovery indirect evaporative cooling	13
Influence of urban morphological factors on building energy consumption combined with photovoltaic potential: A case study of residential blocks in central China	13
Daily power demand prediction for buildings at a large scale using a hybrid of physics-based model and generative adversarial network	13
Application of a probabilistic LHS-PAWN approach to assess building cooling energy demand uncertainties	13
BIM-based automated design for HVAC system of office buildings—An experimental study	13
A real-time abnormal operation pattern detection method for building energy systems based on association rule bases	13
Environmental parameters assessment of a new diffuser for air cooling/heating system: Measurements and numerical validation	13
Heating load reduction characteristics of passive solar buildings in Tibet, China	12
Numerical analysis of horizontal temperature distribution in large buildings by thermo-aeraulic zonal approach	12
Generating prototypical residential building geometry models using a new hybrid approach	12
A statistical-based online cross-system fault detection method for building chillers	12
Development of data-driven thermal sensation prediction model using quality-controlled databases	12
Modelling occupant behaviour for urban scale simulation: Review of available approaches and tools	12
Assessing cooling energy reduction potentials by retrofitting traditional cavity walls into passively ventilated cavity walls	12
Room thermal load prediction based on analytic hierarchy process and back-propagation neural networks	12
CBE Clima Tool: A free and open-source web application for climate analysis tailored to sustainable building design	12
Estimation of pollutant sources in multi-zone buildings through different deconvolution algorithms	12
Evaluation of the ventilation system in an LNG cargo tank construction platform (CTCP) by the AHP-entropy weight method	12
Cooking grease particles purification review and technology combination strategy evaluation for commercial kitchens	12
Modeling and management performances of distributed energy resource for demand flexibility in Japanese zero energy house	12
Simulation and experiment of a photovoltaic—air source heat pump system with thermal energy storage for heating and domestic hot water supply	11
Numerical investigation on fire-induced indoor and outdoor air pollutant dispersion in an idealized urban street canyon	11
Leveraging graph convolutional networks for semi-supervised fault diagnosis of HVAC systems in data-scarce contexts	11
The integration model of objective and subjective data of residential indoor environment quality in Northeast China based on structural equation modeling	11
Modeled exposure to phthalates via inhalation and dermal pathway in children’s sleeping environment: A preliminary study and its implications	11
Numerical study of reactive pollutants diffusion in urban street canyons with a viaduct	11
A cost-effectiveness assessment of the operational parameters of central HVAC systems during pandemics	11
Airborne transmission during short-term events: Direct route over indirect route	11
Distribution characteristics of indoor oxygen concentration under natural ventilation in oxygen-enriched buildings at high altitudes	11
On the effects of urban-like intersections on ventilation and pollutant dispersion	11
Indoor evacuation model based on visual-guidance artificial bee colony algorithm	11
Comparative analysis of sol-air temperature in typical open and semi-closed courtyard spaces	10
Evaluation of the performance of demand control ventilation system for school buildings located in the hot climate of Saudi Arabia	10
Modeling and analysis of a dual-channel solar thermal storage wall system with phase change material in hot summer and cold winter area	10
Revisiting thermal comfort and thermal sensation	10
Impact of indoor ventilation efficiency on acetone inhalation exposure concentration and tissue dose in respiratory tract	10
AutoBPS-BIM: A toolkit to transfer BIM to BEM for load calculation and chiller design optimization	10
Evaluation of the relative differences in building energy simulation results	10
Development and validation of a transient simulation model of a full-scale PCM embedded radiant chilled ceiling	10
Research on the influence of building convex exit on crowd evacuation and its design optimization	10
Effective improvement of a local thermal environment using multi-vent module-based adaptive ventilation	10
Optimisation design and verification of the acoustic environment for multimedia classrooms in universities based on simulation	10
Influences of spherical tree canopy on thermal radiation disturbance to exterior wall under the condition of no shade cast on the wall	10
Thermal environment investigation of asymmetric radiation coupled with convection heating	10
CoolVox: Advanced 3D convolutional neural network models for predicting solar radiation on building facades	10
An effective method to determine bedding system insulation based on measured data	10
Robustness of ventilation systems in the control of walking-induced indoor fluctuations: Method development and case study	9
A preliminary study on volatile organic compounds and odor in university dormitories: Situation, contribution, and correlation	9
New challenges for optimal design of nearly/net zero energy buildings under post-occupancy performance-based design standards and a risk-benefit based solution	9
The effect of classroom wall color on learning performance: A virtual reality experiment	9
Framework on low-carbon retrofit of rural residential buildings in arid areas of northwest China: A case study of Turpan residential buildings	9
Impacts of uneven surface heating of an ideal street canyon on airflows and indoor ventilation: Numerical study using OpenFOAM coupled with EnergyPlus	9
Evaluation of model fidelity for solar analysis in the context of distributed PV integration at urban scale	9
Uncertainty and parameter ranking analysis on summer thermal characteristics of the hydronic thermal barrier for low-energy buildings	9
Energetic, economic, and environmental analysis of solid oxide fuel cell-based combined cooling, heating, and power system for cancer care hospital	9
Evaluating multiple parameters dependency of base temperature for heating degree-days in building energy prediction	9
Mapping the urban natural ventilation potential by hydrological simulation	9
CFD modeling of dynamic airflow and particle transmission in an aircraft lavatory	9
Impact of climate change on outdoor design conditions and implications to peak loads	9
Evaluation of the thermal performance of radiant floor heating system with the influence of unevenly distributed solar radiation based on the theory of discretization	9
Applicability and comparison of solar-air source heat pump systems between cold and warm regions of plateau by transient simulation and experiment	9
Effects of mask wearing duration and relative humidity on thermal perception in the summer outdoor built environment	9
On-site solar PV generation and use: Self-consumption and self-sufficiency	9

Numerical and experimental study on the critical velocity and smoke maximum temperature in the connected area of branch tunnel	9
Zoning strategy of zonal modeling for thermally stratified large spaces	9
Direct capture efficiency of range hoods in the confined kitchen space	9
Large eddy simulation of room fire spread using a medium scale compartment made of medium density fibreboard (MDF) panels	9
Modeling the collapse of the Plasco Building. Part I: Reconstruction of fire	8
Analysis of COVID-19 clusters involving vertical transmission in residential buildings in Hong Kong	8
Study on impact factors of tracer gas method in investigations of gaseous pollutant transport and building ventilation	8
Modelling method of inter-building movement for campus-scale occupancy simulation: A case study	8
Design and optimization of thermally responsive autonomous dynamic glazed attachment systems for building solar heat gain control	8
An improved transfer learning strategy for short-term cross-building energy prediction using data incremental	8
Truncation method for calculating the resistance of ventilation air-conditioning duct systems under nonfully developed flow boundary conditions	8
Application of statistical analysis of sample size: How many occupant responses are required for an indoor environmental quality (IEQ) field study	8
Airflow pattern and performance of attached ventilation for two types of tiny spaces	8
A non-cooperative game-based distributed optimization method for chiller plant control	8
Challenges and opportunities of machine learning control in building operations	8
Predicting roof-surface wind pressure induced by conical vortex using a BP neural network combined with POD	8
Impact of window and air-conditioner operation behaviour on cooling load in high-rise residential buildings	8
Stochastic energy-demand analyses with random input parameters for the single-family house	8
Building a greener future—Progress of the green building technology in the “13th Five-Year Plan” of China	8
Differential pressure reset strategy based on reinforcement learning for chilled water systems	8
Dynamic performance and energy efficiency of reflective and insulative composite coating on building exterior wall	8
Performance simulation and optimization of new radiant floor heating based on micro heat pipe array	8
Natural ventilation driven by a restricted heat source elevated to different levels	8
Timetabling optimization of classrooms and self-study rooms in university teaching buildings based on the building controls virtual test bed platform considering energy efficiency	8
Evaluation of an innovative pediatric isolation (PI) bed using fluid dynamics simulation and aerosol isolation efficacy	8
CFD simulation of wind and thermal-induced ventilation flow of a roof cavity	7
Pressure and flowrate distribution in central exhaust shaft with multiple randomly operating range hoods	7
In search of optimal building behavior models for model predictive control in the context of flexibility	7
Multiple indicators and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) for comprehensive performance evaluation of exhaust hood	7
Spatio-temporal distribution of gaseous pollutants from multiple sources in industrial buildings with different flow patterns	7
Evaluation of model predictive control (MPC) of solar thermal heating system with thermal energy storage for buildings with highly variable occupancy levels	7
A comprehensive simulation-based assessment of office building performance adaptability to teleworking scenarios in different Canadian climate zones	7
The effect of noise exposure on sleep quality of urban residents: A comparative study in Shanghai, China	7
The effect of geometric layout of exit on escape mechanism of crowd	7
Applicability of high-temperature cooling systems in different European countries from the view of the condensation risk	7
Diagnosis of building energy consumption in the 2012 CBECS data using heterogeneous effect of energy variables: A recursive partitioning approach	7
Ranking parameters in urban energy models for various building forms and climates using sensitivity analysis	7
Numerical evaluation of the use of vegetation as a shelterbelt for enhancing the wind and thermal comfort in peripheral and lateral-type skygardens in highrise buildings	7
Normalized urban heat island (UHI) indicators: Classifying the temporal variation of UHI for building energy simulation (BES) applications	7
A hierarchical multi-purpose roller shade controller to enhance indoor comfort and energy efficiency	7
Efficiency enhancement of building multi-layer solar collector with SiO2–TiO2 hybrid nanofluids	7
Identifying spatiotemporal information of the point pollutant source indoors based on the adjoint-regularization method	7
The impacts of evaluation indices and normalization methods on E-TOPSIS optimization of return vent height for an impinging jet ventilation system	7
Development of a Bayesian inference model for assessing ventilation condition based on CO2 meters in primary schools	7
Research on the influence of outdoor trees on natural ventilation performance of an academic building	7
The impact of urban morphology on multiple ecological effects: Coupling relationships and collaborative optimization strategies	7
A review and prospect on research progress of adjustable transparent envelope	7
Nationwide evaluation of energy and indoor air quality predictive control and impact on infection risk for cooling season	7
Design and performance of a novel miniaturized electrostatic sampler for efficient airborne particulate matter sampling	6
Modeling and configuration optimization of the rooftop photovoltaic with electric-hydrogen-thermal hybrid storage system for zero-energy buildings: Consider a cumulative seasonal effect	6
Predominance of inhalation route in short-range transmission of respiratory viruses: Investigation based on computational fluid dynamics	6
Residential building performance analysis at near extreme weather conditions in Hong Kong through a thermal-comfort-based strategy	6
Cooling load characteristics of indoor spaces conditioned by decoupled radiant cooling unit with low radiant temperature	6
Physio-chemical modeling of the NOx-O3 photochemical cycle and the air pollutants’ reactive dispersion around an isolated building	6
Example-based dynamic façade design using the facade daylighting performance improvement (FDPI) indicator	6
A newly designed BIPV system with enhanced passive cooling and ventilation	6
Economic analysis of rooftop photovoltaics system under different shadowing conditions for 20 cities in China	6
Advanced data analytics for building energy modeling and management	6
Occupancy of rooms in urban residential buildings by users in cold areas of China	6
Impact of ionizers on prevention of airborne infection in classroom	6
A method of determining typical meteorological year for evaluating overheating performance of passive buildings	6
Machine learning approach for estimating the human-related VOC emissions in a university classroom	6
A visualized soundscape prediction model for design processes in urban parks	6
Quantification of how mechanical ventilation influences the airborne infection risk of COVID-19 and HVAC energy consumption in office buildings	6
DeepRadiation: An intelligent augmented reality platform for predicting urban energy performance just through 360 panoramic streetscape images utilizing various deep learning models	6
Multiscale simulation of the urban wind environment under typhoon weather conditions	6
An exploratory study on road tunnel with semi-transparent photovoltaic canopy—From energy saving and fire safety perspectives	6
Development of acoustic computer simulation for performance spaces: A systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Comfort assessment and energy performance analysis of a novel adjustable semi-transparent photovoltaic window under different rule-based controls	6
Temporal-spatial risk assessment of COVID-19 under the influence of urban spatial environmental parameters: The case of Shenyang city	6
Thermal comfort in classrooms considering a traditional wind tower in Trabzon through simulation	6
Comprehensive evaluation and analysis of a nearly zero-energy building heating system using a multi-source heat pump in severe cold region	6
Influence and characteristic of shading on photovoltaic performance of bifacial modules and method for estimating bifacial gain	6
Indoor distribution and personal exposure of cooking-generated PM2.5 in rural residences of China: A multizone model study	5
Numerical study on the ceiling gas temperature in a subway train with different fire locations	5
Numerical investigation of impinging jet ventilation in ICUs: Is thermal stratification a problem?	5
A novel non-intrusive load monitoring technique using semi-supervised deep learning framework for smart grid	5
Study on the challenge and influence of the built thermal environment on elderly health in rural areas: Evidence from Shandong, China	5
Optimized design and integration of energy storage in Solar-Assisted Ground-Source Heat Pump systems	5
Optimization of heat source side technical scheme of combined heat and water system based on a coal-fired power plant	5
Characteristics of outdoor pollutants intrusion and ventilation control in sentry buildings with normal openings	5
A modeling framework for the integration of electrical and thermal energy systems in greenhouses	5
Numerical analysis on phase change progress and thermal performance of different roofs integrated with phase change material (PCM) in Moroccan semi-arid and Mediterranean climates	5
Real-time ventilation control based on a Bayesian estimation of occupancy	5
Model free optimization of building cooling water systems with refined action space	5
Comparison of detached eddy simulation and standard k—ε RANS model for rack-level airflow analysis inside a data center	5
A novel AC turning on behavior model based on survival analysis	5
Turbulence model performance for ventilation components pressure losses	5
Investigation of pressure drop in flexible ventilation ducts under different compression ratios and bending angles	5
Simulation study of a dual-cavity window with gravity-driven cooling mechanism	5
Non-uniform operative temperature distribution characteristics and heat-source-controlled core-area range of local heating radiators	5