OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Building Simulation is 11. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

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
From occupants to occupants: A review of the occupant information understanding for building HVAC occupant-centric control	40
Energy and comfort performance of occupant-centric air conditioning strategy in office buildings with personal comfort devices	40
Federated learning-based short-term building energy consumption prediction method for solving the data silos problem	38
Evaluating the impact of thermostat control strategies on the energy flexibility of residential buildings for space heating	37
A novel deep generative modeling-based data augmentation strategy for improving short-term building energy predictions	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
Association between the infection probability of COVID-19 and ventilation rates: An update for SARS-CoV-2 variants	32
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
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
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

Wind environment around the setback building models	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
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
Evaluating the energy impact potential of energy efficiency measures for retrofit applications: A case study with U.S. medium office buildings	22
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
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
On COVID-19-safety ranking of seats in intercontinental commercial aircrafts: A preliminary multiphysics computational perspective	20
A framework for building energy management system with residence mounted photovoltaic	20
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
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
Effects of side ratio for ‘Y’ plan shaped tall building under wind load	18
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
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
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
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
Occupancy-aided ventilation for airborne infection risk control: Continuously or intermittently reduced occupancies?	16
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
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
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
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
A demand side management approach to increase self-consumption in buildings	13
Influence of urban morphological factors on building energy consumption combined with photovoltaic potential: A case study of residential blocks in central China	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
Daily power demand prediction for buildings at a large scale using a hybrid of physics-based model and generative adversarial network	13
Environmental parameters assessment of a new diffuser for air cooling/heating system: Measurements and numerical validation	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
Characteristic studies of heat sources and performance analysis of free-cooling assisted air conditioning and ventilation systems for working faces of mineral mines	13
Unsteady RANS simulation of wind flow around a building shape obstacle	13
A global typical meteorological year (TMY) database on ERA5 dataset	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
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
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
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