Volume 14, Issue 4 (2021)
Review Article
Review of onsite temperature and solar forecasting models to enable better building design and operations
Bing Dong, Reisa Widjaja, Wenbo Wu, and Zhi Zhou
Research Articles
An efficient sensitivity analysis for energy performance of building envelope: A continuous derivative based approach
Ainagul Jumabekova, Julien Berger, and Aurélie Foucquier
The impact of cultural assumptions on simulated energy, comfort, and investment returns of design decisions in two desert climates
Esteban Estrella Guillen, Holly W. Samuelson, and Christine Vohringer
Utilization of irradiance ratios for calculating the effect of reflections from obstructions in building energy simulation
Gian Luca Brunetti
Evaluating multiple parameters dependency of base temperature for heating degree-days in building energy prediction
Qinglong Meng, Yuan Xi, Xingxing Zhang, Monjur Mourshed, and Yue Hui
Tradeoff between heating energy demand in winter and indoor overheating risk in summer constrained by building standards
Ran Wang, Shilei Lu, Wei Feng, and Bowen Xu
Data-driven sensitivity analysis and electricity consumption prediction for water source heat pump system using limited information
Shaobo Sun and Huanxin Chen
A simulation-based method to investigate occupant-centric controls
Mohamed M. Ouf, June Young Park, and H. Burak Gunay
A framework for building energy management system with residence mounted photovoltaic
C Chellaswamy, R Ganesh Babu, and A Vanathi
Multi-sensor information fusion based control for VAV systems using thermal comfort constraints
Xu Zhu, Taotao Shi, Xinqiao Jin, and Zhimin Du
The effects of exhaust air vent location on thermal comfort inside a residential building equipped with an evaporative cooling system
Armin Saraei and Samir Farid Moujaes
Investigation of natural ventilation performance of large space circular coal storage dome
Yaohua Hou, Chao Chen, Yu Zhou, Zhixiang Yang, and Shen Wei
A numerical study on the effect of column layout on air distribution and performance of column attachment ventilation
Haiguo Yin, Linna Li, Rui Wu, Yuanyuan Wang, and Angui Li
Effects of corner modifications on wind loads and local pressures on walls of tall buildings
K. T. Tse, Gang Hu, Jie Song, Hyo Seon Park, and Bubryur Kim
Fluid dynamic and thermal comfort analysis in an actual operating room with unidirectional airflow system
Nicola Massarotti, Alessandro Mauro, Salahudeen Mohamed, Andrzej J. Nowak, and Domenico Sainas
Experimental and computational study of smoke dynamics from multiple fire sources inside a large-volume building
Gabriele Vigne, Wojciech Węgrzyński, Alexis Cantizano, Pablo Ayala, Guillermo Rein, and Cándido Gutiérrez-Montes
Particulate matter emission by an isolated rotating wheel
Jinwei Song, Hua Qian, Dongliang Zhao, Weixue Jiang, and Xiaohong Zheng
An assessment on the test setups used for energy labeling of ceiling fans
Dilshan Ramesh Casseer and Chathura Ranasinghe
Streamlined CFD simulation framework to generate wind-pressure coefficients on building facades for airflow network simulations
Timur Dogan and Patrick Kastner
The comparison of design airflow rates with dynamic and steady-state displacement models in varied dynamic conditions
Natalia Lastovets, Risto Kosonen, and Juha Jokisalo
Effects of side ratio for 'Y’ plan shaped tall building under wind load
Prasenjit Sanyal and Sujit Kumar Dalui
Truncation method for calculating the resistance of ventilation air-conditioning duct systems under nonfully developed flow boundary conditions
Ran Gao, Wei Guo, Changqing Yang, Meng Wang, Sikai Zhang, Hang Zhou, and Angui Li
Investigation of pressure drop in flexible ventilation ducts under different compression ratios and bending angles
Ho Kam Dai, Wenjie Huang, Liye Fu, Chao-Hsin Lin, Daniel Wei, Zhongzhe Dong, Ruoyu You, and Chun Chen
Inverse determination of multiple heat sources’ release history in indoor environments
Lei Lei, Hao Zheng, Bing Wu, and Yu Xue
Modeling chemical releases from building materials: The search for extended validity domain and parsimony
Lei Huang, Alice Micolier, Henri P. Gavin, and Olivier Jolliet
Assessing cooling energy reduction potentials by retrofitting traditional cavity walls into passively ventilated cavity walls
Ri Na and Zhigang Shen
Asymmetric flow effect in a horizontal natural ventilated tunnel with different aspect ratios under the influence of longitudinal fire locations
Longxing Yu, Huaxian Wan, and Jie Ji
Analysis of the effect of passive measures on the energy consumption and zero-energy prospects of residential buildings in Pakistan
Muhammad Wasim Anwar, Zaib Ali, Abdullah Javed, Emad Ud Din, and Muhammad Sajid
Cover Article
An efficient method of evaluating large scale urban residential skylight environment and an empirical study of Beijing main area
Taofang Yu, Hongzhong Chen, Ziwei Li, Qiushi He, and Borong Lin
