Publications: BTUS Modeling and Simulation

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2018

Tarroja, Brian, Felicia Chiang, Amir AghaKouchak, Scott Samuelsen, Shuba V. Raghavan, Max Wei, Kaiyu Sun, and Tianzhen Hong."Translating climate change and heating system electrification impacts on building energy use to future greenhouse gas emissions and electric grid capacity requirements in California."Applied Energy 225 (2018) 522 - 534. DOI
Langevin, Jared."Modeling the adoption of building efficiency technologies: A review of methods and datasets."2018 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).
Pang, Xiufeng, Carlos Duarte, Philip Haves, and Frank Chuang."Testing and demonstration of model predictive control applied to a radiant slab cooling system in a building test facility."Energy and Buildings 172 (2018) 432 - 441. DOI
Blum, David, Guanjing Lin, Michael Spears, Janie Page, and Jessica Granderson."When Data Analytics Meet Site Operation: Benefits and Challenges."2018 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).
Belafi, Zsofia, Tianzhen Hong, and Andras Reith."A critical review on questionnaire surveys in the field of energy-related occupant behaviour."Energy Efficiency (2018) 1-21. DOI
Jia, Hongyuan, Xiufeng Pang, and Philip Haves."Experimentally-determined characteristics of radiant systems for office buildings."Applied Energy 221 (2018) 41 - 54. DOI
Wang, Wei, Jiayu Chen, Tianzhen Hong, and Na Zhu."Occupancy prediction through Markov based feedback recurrent neural network (M-FRNN) algorithm with WiFi probe technology."Building and Environment 138 (2018) 160 - 170. DOI
Pass, Rebecca Zarin, Michael Wetter, and Mary Ann Piette."A thermodynamic analysis of a novel bidirectional district heating and cooling network."Energy 144 (2018) 20 - 30. DOI
Wang, Wei, Jiayu Chen, and Tianzhen Hong."Modeling occupancy distribution in large spaces with multi-feature classification algorithm."Building and Environment 137 (2018). DOI

2017

Granderson, Jessica, Guanjing Lin, David Blum, Shankar Earni, Janie Page, and Mary Ann Piette."Optimizing Operational Efficiency: Integrating Energy Information Systems and Model-Based Diagnostics." (2017). DOI
Parker, Andrew, Philip Haves, Subhash Jegi, Vishal Garg, and Baptiste Ravache."Development of Automated Procedures to Generate Reference Building Models for ASHRAE Standard 90.1 and India’s Building Energy Code and Implementation in OpenStudio."Building Simulation 2017 (2017).
Lee, Sang Hoon, and Tianzhen Hong."Leveraging Zone Air Temperature Data to Improve Physics-Based Energy Simulation of Existing Buildings."Building Simulation 2017 (2017). DOI
Blum, David, and Michael Wetter."MPCPy: An Open-Source Software Platform for Model Predictive Control in Buildings."Proceedings of the 15th IBPSA Conference: Building Simulation 2017 (2017).
Piette, Mary Ann, Tianzhen Hong, William J. Fisk, Norman Bourassa, Wanyu R. Chan, Yixing Chen, H.Y. Iris Cheung, Toshifumi Hotchi, Margarita Kloss, Sang Hoon Lee, Phillip N. Price, Oren Schetrit, Kaiyu Sun, Sarah C. Taylor-Lange, and Rongpeng Zhang."Small and Medium Building Efficiency Toolkit and Community Demonstration Program." (2017). DOI
Haves, Philip, Xiufeng Pang, and Hongyuan Jia."Experimentally-Determined Characteristics of Radiant Systems for Commercial Buildings." (2017).
Maccarini, Alessandro, Michael Wetter, Alireza Afshari, Goran Hultmark, Niels Bergsoe, and Anders Vorre."Energy saving potential of a two-pipe system for simultaneous heating and cooling of office buildings."Energy and Buildings 134 (2017) 234 - 247. DOI
Chen, Yixing, Tianzhen Hong, and Xuan Luo."An Agent-Based Stochastic Occupancy Simulator." (2017).
Sun, Kaiyu, and Tianzhen Hong."A Framework for Quantifying the Impact of Occupant Behavior on Energy Savings of Energy Conservation Measures." (2017).
D'Oca, Simona, Tianzhen Hong, and Jared Langevin."The Human Dimensions of Energy Use in Buildings: A Review." (2017).
An, Jingjing, Da Yan, Tianzhen Hong, and Kaiyu Sun."A Novel Stochastic Modeling Method to Simulate Cooling Loads in Residential Districts." (2017).
D'Oca, Simona, Chien-Fen Chen, Tianzhen Hong, and Zsofia Belafi."Synthesizing building physics with social psychology: An interdisciplinary framework for context and occupant behavior in office buildings." (2017).

2016

Hong, Tianzhen, Sarah C. Taylor-Lange, Simona D'Oca, Da Yan, and Stefano P. Corgnati."Advances in research and applications of energy-related occupant behavior in buildings."Energy and Buildings 116 (2016) 694-702. DOI
Chen, Yixing, Xuan Luo, and Tianzhen Hong."An Agent-Based Occupancy Simulator for Building Performance Simulation." (2016).
Herrlin, Magnus, and Randall C. Cole."Air Management in Small Data Centers." (2016).
D'Oca, Simona, Stefano P. Corgnati, Anna Laura Pisello, and Tianzhen Hong."Introduction to an occupant behavior motivation survey framework." (2016).