Publications: BTUS Modeling and Simulation

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2011

Raferty, Paul, Marcus Keane, and James O'Donnell."Calibrating whole building energy models: An evidence-based methodology."Energy and Buildings 43.9 (2011) 2356-2364. DOI(link is external)
Zuo, Wangda, and Qingyan Chen."Validation of a Fast-Fluid-Dynamics Model for Predicting Distribution of Particles with Low Stokes Number."12th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate (Indoor Air 2011) (2011).
Torrens, , J. Ignacio, Marcus Keane, Andrea Costa, and James O'Donnell."Multi-Criteria Optimisation using Past, Real Time and Predictive Performance Benchmarks."Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory 19.4 (2011) 1258-1265.
Zhu, Dandan, Chuang Wang, Da Yan, and Tianzhen Hong."A Comparison of DeST and EnergyPlus."China HVAC Simulation Conference (2011).
Wetter, Michael."Co-simulation of building energy and control systems with the Building Controls Virtual Test Bed."Journal of Building Performance Simulation 3.4 (2011). DOI(link is external)
Zuo, Wangda, and Michael Wetter."Advanced simulations of building energy and control systems with an example of chilled water plant modeling."the 8th International Forum and Workshop on Combined Heat, Air, Moisture and Pollutant Simulations (CHAMPS 2011) (2011).
Bazjanac, Vladimir, Tobias Maile, James O'Donnell, Cody Rose, and Natasa Mrazovic."Data Enviroments and Processing in Sem-Automated Simulation with EnergyPlus."CIB W078-W102 (2011).
Pang, Xiufeng, and Mingsheng Liu."Prevention of Compressor Short Cycling in Direct-Expansion (DX) Rooftop Units, Part 1: Theoretical Analysis and Simulation."ASHRAE Transactions 117.2 (2011) 666-676.
Pang, Xiufeng, and Mingsheng Liu."Prevention of Compressor Short Cycling in Direct-Expansion (DX) Rooftop Units— Part 2: Field Investigation."ASHRAE Transactions 117.2 (2011) 677-685.
Wetter, Michael, Wangda Zuo, and Thierry Stephane Nouidui."Recent developments of the Modelica Buildings library for building energy and control systems."the 8th International Modelica Conference (2011).

2010

Bailey, Trevor, Zheng O'Neill, Madhusudana Shashanka, Prajesh Bhattacharya, Philip Haves, and Xiufeng Pang."Automated Continuous Commissioning of Commercial Buildings."DoD SERDP-ESTCP Partners in Environmental Technology Technical Symposium and Workshop (2010).
Trcka, Marija, Jan Hensen, and Michael Wetter."Co-simulation for performance prediction of integrated building and HVAC systems - An analysis of solution characteristics using a two-body system."Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory 18.7 (2010) 957-970. DOI(link is external)
Ma, Yudong, Francesco Borrelli, Brandon Hencey, Brian E. Coffey, Sorin Bengea, and Philip Haves."Model Predictive Control of Thermal Energy Storage in Building Cooling Systems."American Control Conference (2010).
Hong, Tianzhen, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Assessment of Energy Impact of Window Technologies for Commercial Buildings."2010 ACEEE Summer Study (2010).
Keane, Marcus, Andrea Costa, James O'Donnell, Karsten Menzel, and , Alan Dirk."BuildWise Final Report." (2010).
Kämpf, Jérôme Henri, Michael Wetter, and Darren Robinson."A comparison of global optimization algorithms with standard benchmark functions and real-world applications using EnergyPlus."Journal of Building Performance Simulation 3.2 (2010) 103-120. DOI(link is external)
Coffey, Brian E., Philip Haves, Michael Wetter, Brandon Hencey, Francesco Borrelli, Yudong Ma, and Sorin Bengea."Development and Testing of Model Predictive Control for a Campus Chilled Water Plant with Thermal Storage."2010 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2010).
Victor, Norrefeldt, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, and Gunnar Gruen."Development of an isothermal 2D zonal air volume model with impulse conservation."Clima 2010, 10th Rehva World Congress "Sustainable Energy Use in Buildings" (2010).
Raferty, Paul, Marcus Keane, James O'Donnell, and Andrea Costa."Energy Monitoring Systems value, issues and recommendations based on five case studies."Clima 2010 conference (2010).
Zuo, Wangda, and Qingyan Chen."Fast and informative flow simulation in a building by using fast fluid dynamics model on graphics processing unit."Building and Environment 45.3 (2010) 747-757.
Zuo, Wangda, and Qingyan Chen."Fast simulation of smoke transport in buildings."the 41st International HVAC&R congress (2010).
Hu, Jianjun, Wangda Zuo, and Qingyan Chen."Impact of time-splitting schemes on the accuracy of FFD simulations."the 7th International Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings Conference (IAQVEC 2010) (2010) 55-60.
Liu, Mingsheng, Jingjuan Feng, Zhan Wang, Keke Zheng, and Xiufeng Pang."Impacts of Static Pressure Reset on VAV System Air Leakage, Fan Power, and Thermal Energy."ASHRAE Transactions 116.1 (2010) 428-436.
Zuo, Wangda, Jianjun Hu, and Qingyan Chen."Improvements on FFD modeling by using different numerical schemes."Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B Fundamentals 58.1 (2010) 1-16.
Zuo, Wangda, and Qingyan Chen."Improvements on the fast fluid dynamics model for indoor airflow simulation."the 4th National Conference of IBPSA-USA (SimBuild2010) (2010) 539-546.