Building Simulation

Papers
(The median citation count of Building Simulation is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
A performance prediction method for on-site chillers based on dynamic graph convolutional network enhanced by association rules200
Bayesian optimization + XGBoost based life cycle carbon emission prediction for residential buildings—An example from Chengdu, China126
A hierarchical multi-purpose roller shade controller to enhance indoor comfort and energy efficiency78
Energy consumption dynamic prediction for HVAC systems based on feature clustering deconstruction and model training adaptation73
Developing modified k–ε turbulence models for neutral atmospheric boundary layer flow simulation using OpenFOAM72
Mechanistic modeling of copper corrosions in data center environments59
A review and prospect on research progress of adjustable transparent envelope52
AutoLFM: A multi-agent LLM framework for automated building load forecasting50
Mitigating urban thermal effects by analyzing nonlinear and threshold influences of urban factors using interpretable spatial machine-learning45
Occupant-oriented indoor environment: An approach to create high performance indoor environment for all scenarios43
Energy performance analysis of multi-chiller cooling systems for data centers concerning progressive loading throughout the lifecycle under typical climates43
Predicting building ventilation performance in the era of an indoor air crisis42
A comprehensive framework for building flexibility assessment: RC-Mapping modeling, flexibility quantification, and uncertainty analysis41
Exposure-based smart ventilation and occupancy control for optimizing ventilation energy consumption and long-range airborne transmission of COVID-19 in school environments41
Impact of thermal stratification on airborne transmission risk of SARS-CoV-2 in various indoor environments35
A reinforcement learning approach for thermostat setpoint preference learning35
Experimental study on summer operation regulation of PV walls based on multi-channel ventilation and composite phase change energy storage34
Integrated parametric design of ventilation corridors and urban form for enhanced urban ventilation performance34
Neural ordinary differential equations-based approach for enhanced building energy modeling on small datasets34
Fine-scale estimation of building operation carbon emissions: A case study of the Pearl River Delta Urban Agglomeration33
Pedestrian wind flow prediction using spatial-frequency generative adversarial network33
Dust control performance of innovative arc device for metro system construction based on orthogonal experiment32
Potential of contemporary earth-sheltered buildings to achieve Plus Energy status in various European climates during the heating season32
Enhancing building resilience: Maintaining energy efficiency and thermal comfort during power outages in cold climates31
Occupancy of rooms in urban residential buildings by users in cold areas of China31
Practical methods for constant temperature control in tunnel-shaped scientific facilities: Uniform vs. pressure-driven air supply with insights from SHINE31
Tracking controller design for air handling units with uncertainties30
The role of privacy design in office environments: Implications for stress level, spatial perception, and work performance using Hybrid immersive Virtual Environment30
Effectiveness of air cleaner on mitigating the transmission of respiratory disease in a dental clinic environment30
Modeling and configuration optimization of the rooftop photovoltaic with electric-hydrogen-thermal hybrid storage system for zero-energy buildings: Consider a cumulative seasonal effect30
Enhancing the efficiency of cabin heaters in emergency shelters after earthquakes through an optimized fuzzy controller29
Potential application of radiant floor cooling systems for residential buildings in different climate zones28
Multiscale simulation of the urban wind environment under typhoon weather conditions28
The noise spectral characteristics and noise reduction schemes of screw air-source heat pump: A case study28
A nationwide assessment of energy flexibility from predictive-controlled heat pump and active thermal energy storage system for building electrification28
Impact of indoor ventilation efficiency on acetone inhalation exposure concentration and tissue dose in respiratory tract28
An improved wall-mounted displacement ventilation system in a large-span machining workshop27
Fast prediction of indoor airflow distribution inspired by synthetic image generation artificial intelligence27
The mutual impacts of individual building design and local microclimate in high-density cities and the major influential parameters27
A lightweight adjoint method for gaseous pollution source term estimation in urban environments26
Study on the impact of transient turbulence induced by head movements on the dynamic exposure to infectious respiratory particles26
A review of current research on occupant-centric control for improving comfort and energy efficiency26
Influence of breathing modes on respiratory pathogen transmission during cough exposure25
The introduction of a probabilistic behavior model to minimize performance gap and improve affordability of ultra low energy housing25
Performance evaluation of physical consistency approach for optimizing residential space heating system in cold snap conditions24
Building geometry data from online maps for accurate thermal simulations of districts24
A subspace based method for modelling building’s thermal dynamic in district heating system and parameter extrapolation verification24
Vapor intrusion in buildings: Development of semi-empirical models including lateral separation between the building and the pollution source24
CFD simulation of pumping ventilation in a three-story isolated building with internal partitioning: Effects of partition widths, heights and locations23
Optimizing a thermoelectric window frame for heating and cooling: A cross-validated simulation study23
Topology optimization design and performance analysis of the low resistance rectifier for uniform air supply23
Reducing children’s exposure to di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate in homes and kindergartens in China: Impact on lifetime cancer risks and burden of disease23
Possible high COVID-19 airborne infection risk in deep and poorly ventilated 2D street canyons23
Impacts of insulation retrofits and electrification on residential energy use across multiple housing types in the historic Japanese city of Kyoto23
Fault impact analysis and prioritization for chilled water plants with chiller and water-side economizer23
Comprehensive evaluation and analysis of a nearly zero-energy building heating system using a multi-source heat pump in severe cold region22
Challenges and opportunities for carbon neutrality in China’s building sector—Modelling and data22
Creating non-uniform thermal environment in large space buildings based on column attachment ventilation22
Quantifying the contribution of activity patterns to PM2.5 exposure inequity between urban and rural residents by a novel method22
Assessing the energy saving potential of using adaptive setpoint temperatures: The case study of a regional adaptive comfort model for Brazil in both the present and the future22
Systematic review of the efficacy of data-driven urban building energy models during extreme heat in cities: Current trends and future outlook21
Modeling urban scale human mobility through big data analysis and machine learning21
Chinese prototype building models for simulating the energy performance of the nationwide building stock21
The effect of classroom wall color on learning performance: A virtual reality experiment20
Comparative study of development scenarios to decipher carbon emissions of new/old campuses in China with urban building energy model: A case study of Southeast University20
Analysis of HVAC sensor characteristics for operation and maintenance of the indoor environment: A case research on public building HVAC20
Thermal performances and invisible thermal barrier formation mechanism of arc-shaped metal-fin-enhanced thermally activated building envelopes with directional heat charging feature20
A fast prediction framework for urban microscale wind environment based on precomputed CFD database19
Development and validation of a transient simulation model of a full-scale PCM embedded radiant chilled ceiling19
Integration of a grey-box refrigerated case model in EnergyPlus via Python plugin19
Efficient feature selection for enhanced chiller fault diagnosis: A multi-source ranking information-driven ensemble approach19
Developing an integrated prediction model for daylighting, thermal comfort, and energy consumption in residential buildings based on the stacking ensemble learning algorithm19
Combined empirical model and Euclidean distance for estimating daily and hourly global solar radiation data18
A comprehensive benchmark dataset for the validation of building component heat, air, and moisture (HAM) models18
Assessing stack-induced infiltration loads by predicting neutral pressure levels in high-rise buildings18
Effects of mask wearing duration and relative humidity on thermal perception in the summer outdoor built environment18
Strategic deployment of urban trees to achieve thermal resilience in a Canadian community18
Assessing the spatial variation of soundscape perception in high-density urban mountain parks18
Fault diagnosis of HVAC system with imbalanced data using multi-scale convolution composite neural network18
Regression tree ensemble learning-based prediction of the heating and cooling loads of residential buildings18
Machine learning approach for estimating the human-related VOC emissions in a university classroom18
Climate change induced heat stress impact on workplace productivity in a net zero-carbon timber building towards the end of the century18
Evaluation of transmission risk of respiratory particles under different ventilation strategies in an elevator18
Numerical investigation of non-spherical particle deposition characteristics on filter media18
Factors evaluation of PM2.5 diffusion in street canyons in Dalian based on numerical simulation18
Energy flexibility characteristics of centralized hot water system in university dormitories18
Informing electrification strategies of residential neighborhoods with urban building energy modeling18
Comprehensive evaluations of the bioaerosol filtration performance of high- and medium-efficiency filters under different influencing factors18
A method of determining typical meteorological year for evaluating overheating performance of passive buildings18
Impact of radiative cooling on the energy performance of courtyards in Mediterranean climate17
Exploring the renovation design space: A new iterative approach based on scenario distance metrics and resampling strategies17
Characterization of time- and size-dependent particle emissions and decay from cooking oil fumes in residence: Impacts of various intervention measures17
Energy flexibility and resilience analysis of demand-side energy efficiency measures within existing residential houses during cold wave event17
Deep learning to develop zero-equation based turbulence model for CFD simulations of the built environment17
Best Paper Award 202417
Airborne transmission during short-term events: Direct route over indirect route17
Embedding physical neurons in physics-informed neural networks (EP-PINNs) for enhancing chiller performance prediction17
A global typical meteorological year (TMY) database on ERA5 dataset16
Scaling, optimisation, and application of vegetation canopy radiative transfer model at microclimate scale16
Design, fabrication and energy-saving evaluation of five-layer structure based transparent heat mirror coatings for windows application16
Large language models for building energy applications: Opportunities and challenges16
Integrated framework for space- and energy-efficient retrofitting in multifunctional buildings: A synergy of agent-based modeling and performance-based modeling16
Evaluation of the thermal performance of radiant floor heating system with the influence of unevenly distributed solar radiation based on the theory of discretization16
A new space utilization assessment paradigm from the perspective of post-occupancy evaluation based on Wi-Fi and Bluetooth positioning systems16
Numerical study on the application of low-turbulence air curtain surrounding laminar airflow distribution in operating rooms16
Optimal measurement timing for infrared thermography in building envelope assessment15
Performance of personalized ventilation in mitigating short-range airborne transmission under the influence of multiple factors15
Effects of various information scenarios on layer-wise relevance propagation-based interpretable convolutional neural networks for air handling unit fault diagnosis15
Assessing impact of intermittent window opening strategies on pathogen-laden droplet dispersion in a coach bus15
Can the ASHRAE Standard 169 zoning method be applied to country-level energy-efficient building design in China?15
A degradation knowledge guided health indicator for chiller performance monitoring based on variational information bottleneck15
Influence of airflow and the location of infected individuals on occupant exposure in classrooms without mechanical ventilation during the winter15
Influencing factors of long-term thermal comfort in office buildings15
Effectiveness of internal light shelves to improve daylighting15
Building energy efficiency and COVID-19 infection risk: Lessons from office room management15
Multi-objective optimization of mechanical ventilation with the aid of purifiers in two scenarios: Regular operation and mitigating the spread of respiratory infectious diseases15
Utilizing interpretable stacking ensemble learning and NSGA-III for the prediction and optimisation of building photo-thermal environment and energy consumption14
Indoor and outdoor airflow modeling in built and urban environments by water tank and channel experiments: A review14
Interstitial condensation analysis and moisture control for office building walls in China14
A cost-effectiveness assessment of the operational parameters of central HVAC systems during pandemics14
Infrared-transparent bubble wrap assisted high-intensity radiant cooling14
Effect of solar radiation on human thermal sensation and physiological parameters in a convection–radiation air conditioning environment14
Graph convolutional networks-based method for uncertainty quantification of building design loads14
The use of green infrastructure and irrigation in the mitigation of urban heat in a desert city14
Quantitative analysis of individual-scale occupancy: An occupant-centric method for indoor mobility pattern extraction14
Economic analysis of rooftop photovoltaics system under different shadowing conditions for 20 cities in China14
Erratum to: Research on the influence of outdoor trees on natural ventilation performance of an academic building14
Numerical study of the influence of the atmospheric pressure on the thermal environment in the passenger cabin14
The impact of urban morphology on multiple ecological effects: Coupling relationships and collaborative optimization strategies14
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 buildings14
Urban-scale radiative cooling potential and spatial heterogeneity: A study based on urban building energy modeling (UBEM)13
Simulation of roof snow loads based on a multi-layer snowmelt model: Impact of building heat transfer13
Comparison and evaluation of machine learning models for predicting indoor PM2.5 concentrations on a large spatiotemporal scale13
Modelling occupant behaviour for urban scale simulation: Review of available approaches and tools13
Transient particle transport prediction based on lattice Boltzmann method-based large eddy simulation and Markov chain model13
DeepRadiation: An intelligent augmented reality platform for predicting urban energy performance just through 360 panoramic streetscape images utilizing various deep learning models13
Non-monotonic evolutionary patterns of aerosol transmission risk in dynamic density medical units13
Quantitative evaluation of H2O2 disinfection efficiency in air duct: Effects of temperature, relative humidity and H2O2 concentration13
Modelling method of inter-building movement for campus-scale occupancy simulation: A case study13
Day-ahead energy management of a smart building energy system aggregated with electrical vehicles based on distributionally robust optimization13
Optimal regulation of flexible loads in rural residential buildings considering mobile batteries: A case study in Shaanxi Province13
Investigation on occupant presence and appliance operation schedules for university campus in south China sub-tropical area13
Confidence-driven HVAC component recognition integrating LLMs and computer vision13
Ensemble machine learning framework for daylight modelling of various building layouts13
Erratum to: Optimized design of a reinforced exhaust at low velocity (RELV) system for efficient viral aerosol removal in elevators13
An identification and analysis method on the abnormal electricity usage behavior of urban/building energy systems based on statistical method and domain knowledge13
CFD simulations of snow drifting on flat roof with a photovoltaic panel: Impact of photovoltaic panel on nearby snow redistributions13
Multi-zone modeling of airflow in a free running building floor: Possible implications for disease transmission13
Precise quantification of microclimate heterogeneity and canopy group effects in actively heated solar greenhouses12
AlphaMobileSensing: A virtual testbed for mobile environmental monitoring12
Development of a short duration method to assess the envelope thermal performance of multi-family housings12
Wind impacts on buildings in Hong Kong during super Typhoon Mangkhut12
Forced convection effects on desiccant evaporation and energy consumption assessment in liquid desiccant dehumidification systems12
A human comfort prediction method for indoor personnel based on time-series analysis12
Adaptive reuse strategies in urban centers: Experimental validation using neural networks and real building data12
A co-occupancy analytics method for quantifying multi-occupant spatiotemporal demand toward intermittent localized air conditioning12
Seasonal thermal energy storage using natural structures: GIS-based potential assessment for northern China12
An improved window opening behavior model involving the division of the dummy variable’s interval level: Case study of an office building in Xi’an during summer12
Simulation-aided development of a compact local ventilation unit with the use of CFD analysis12
Molecular dynamics insights into interfacial water accumulation for optimizing ceramic membrane-based air dehumidification12
Experimental study on the CO2 concentration and age of air distribution inside tiny sleeping spaces12
Experimental validation of adsorption filter model under dynamic VOC concentrations: Prediction of long-term efficiency11
An interpretable graph convolutional neural network based fault diagnosis method for building energy systems11
A Fourier neural operator-based method for rapid prediction of 3D indoor airflow dynamics11
A simplified model for unsteady airflow analysis in ultra-long tunnels based on the resistance compensation method11
Towards climate-resilient overheating standards for cold-climate residences in China: Insights from large-scale thermal comfort monitoring11
Research on non-uniform heat transfer testing of prefabricated walls based on infrared images11
A causal lens for building data: What lies beyond the measured?11
Enhancing heavy gas capture in confined spaces through ventilation control technology11
Exploring GPU acceleration framework for climate based daylight modeling11
Thermo-hydraulic steam pipe models for district heating simulations: Simplifications to balance accuracy and simulation speed11
Simulation study of the purification system for indoor oil mist control in machining factories10
Impact of ionizers on prevention of airborne infection in classroom10
Semantic obstruction detection for improved solar energy potential modeling in urban areas10
Assessing the impact of heat mitigation measures on thermal performance and energy demand at the community level: A pathway toward designing net-zero energy communities10
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) bound to indoor dust in plateau households10
Comprehensive energy, economic, environmental assessment of a building integrated photovoltaic-thermoelectric system with battery storage for net zero energy building10
Best Paper Award 202210
Numerical modeling of all-day albedo variation for bifacial PV systems on rooftops and annual yield prediction in Beijing10
A novel lightweight skeletal temporal model for real-time, computationally efficient recognition of occupant thermal adaptation behavior10
Energy modeling and optimization of building condenser water systems with all-variable speed pumps and tower fans: A case study10
Residential building performance analysis at near extreme weather conditions in Hong Kong through a thermal-comfort-based strategy10
Temporal-spatial risk assessment of COVID-19 under the influence of urban spatial environmental parameters: The case of Shenyang city10
Simulation study on suppressing temperature fluctuation based on PCM for radiant supply cooling systems in thermodynamic measurement laboratory10
Advancing and demonstrating the Impact Indices method to screen the sensitivity of building energy use to occupant behaviour10
Hot spot temperature prediction and operating parameter estimation of racks in data center using machine learning algorithms based on simulation data10
Physio-chemical modeling of the NOx-O3 photochemical cycle and the air pollutants’ reactive dispersion around an isolated building10
Efficiency enhancement of building multi-layer solar collector with SiO2–TiO2 hybrid nanofluids10
Fast flow simulation study of pulsating ventilation performance on air contaminant removal9
Design and performance testing of a novel building integrated photovoltaic thermal roofing panel9
Model-based investigation on building thermal mass utilization and flexibility enhancement of air conditioning loads9
An improved transfer learning strategy for short-term cross-building energy prediction using data incremental9
Urban wind field prediction using Fourier Neural Operators across different wind directions and cities9
Generic load regulation strategy for enhancing energy efficiency of chiller plants9
Predominance of inhalation route in short-range transmission of respiratory viruses: Investigation based on computational fluid dynamics9
Developing surrogate models for the early-stage design of residential blocks using graph neural networks9
Accelerating urban street canyon wind flow predictions with deep learning method9
Understanding the role of artificial intelligence in improving human well-being within the built environment9
Quantitative method and influencing factors analysis of demand response performance of air conditioning load with rebound effect9
Spatiotemporal evolution and regional heterogeneity of carbon emissions in municipal-level building sector in China9
Evaluating different levels of information on the calibration of building energy simulation models9
The recirculation flow after different cross-section shaped high-rise buildings with applications to ventilation assessment and drag parameterization9
CFD modeling of dynamic airflow and particle transmission in an aircraft lavatory9
Assessing microclimatic responses of air conditioning system characteristics in coastal cities based on an improved WRF-MBEM model9
BuildingGym: An open-source toolbox for AI-based building energy management using reinforcement learning8
Investigation of ventilation performance in the multi-story building with various envelope features: Scaled outdoor experiments8
Timetabling optimization of classrooms and self-study rooms in university teaching buildings based on the building controls virtual test bed platform considering energy efficiency8
Bridging performance gap for existing buildings: The role of calibration and the cascading effect8
Exercise and resting periods: Thermal comfort dynamics in gym environments8
Using urban building energy modeling to quantify the energy performance of residential buildings under climate change8
Centimeter-level mapping of urban near-surface air temperature reveals limited midday cooling by small greenspace in subtropical environments under clear and calm weather8
Diffusion characteristics of oxygenic–thermal coupled airflow in high-altitude sleeping environment8
A new database of building-space-specific internal loads and load schedules for performance based code compliance modeling of commercial buildings8
Enhancing source domain availability through data and feature transfer learning for building power load forecasting8
Seasonal variation of the photovoltaic driven air conditioner with and without temperature range control8
Reinforcement learning-driven natural ventilation optimization: Reducing respiratory infection risks through adaptive window control in hospital wards of LMICs8
Hybrid forecasting and optimization framework for residential photovoltaic-battery systems: Integrating data-driven prediction with multi-strategy scenario analysis8
A study on bidirectional coupling simulation methods for thermal comfort in cabin environments under solar radiation conditions8
Building and urban simulation under future climate: A novel statistical downscaling method for future hourly weather data generation8
An unsupervised non-intrusive load monitoring method for HVAC systems of office buildings based on MSTL8
Characteristics of outdoor pollutants intrusion and ventilation control in sentry buildings with normal openings8
An integrated framework utilizing machine learning to accelerate the optimization of energy-efficient urban block forms8
Comparative evaluation of data mining methods in predicting the water vapor permeability of cement-based materials8
Comparison of models to predict air infiltration rate of buildings with different surrounding environments8
DeST 3.0: A new-generation building performance simulation platform8
Enhanced reinforcement learning-model predictive control for distributed energy systems: Overcoming local and global optimization limitations8
Impact of interior material selection on the concentration levels of formaldehyde in vehicle cabin environment8
The targeted removal effect and mechanism analysis of two-way active chilled beam induced purification on virus in wards8
Risk assessment of exhaled infectious aerosols transmission driven by natural ventilation in four nursing homes7
Determination of the sensible heat effectiveness and pressure loss of a rotary regenerative heat exchanger using CFD7
An innovative heterogeneous transfer learning framework to enhance the scalability of deep reinforcement learning controllers in buildings with integrated energy systems7
Improvement of building energy flexibility with PV battery system based on prediction and load management7
Natural convection heat transfer coefficients for Chinese children and adolescents7
Accelerating long-term building energy performance simulation with a reference day method7
Model free optimization of building cooling water systems with refined action space7
Adaptive blind control strategy based on iterative optimization to minimize cooling and lighting demands in office space7
On-site solar PV generation and use: Self-consumption and self-sufficiency7
Adaptive method for dynamic collaborative allocation of heating load in heterogeneous building complex: An adaptive-weighted multi-objective reinforcement learning framework7
Extraction method of typical IEQ spatial distributions based on low-rank sparse representation and multi-step clustering7
Performance of an air source heat pump integrating fan-coil window and double-layer pipe-embedded wall for ultra-low-temperature heating7
Prediction of the local and total thermal insulations of a bedding system based on the 3D virtual simulation technology7
An unsupervised method of HVAC energy disaggregation and demand response potential estimation7
CBE Clima Tool: A free and open-source web application for climate analysis tailored to sustainable building design6
Optimizing building envelope design across various French climates: A multi-objective approach using NSGA II and RMP method6
Calibrated models for effective clustering: Discriminating operation schedules in occupied buildings6
Occupant behavior-driven optimization of PCM parameters for enhancing energy performance in lightweight buildings across different climates6
Cooling load characteristics of indoor spaces conditioned by decoupled radiant cooling unit with low radiant temperature6
Performance assessment and optimization of air curtain for pollutant containment around a semi-open industrial building: A predictive response surface model6
An enhanced multi-sensor calibration method for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems without prior knowledge of fault types6
Dynamic performance and energy efficiency of reflective and insulative composite coating on building exterior wall6
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