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Environmental Building Simulation
FAST-DH74Acad. year: 2009/2010
Methods of hygrothermal modelling of constructions and indoor climate in buildings for non-stationary bounday conditions. Classes of modelling methods and thier sorting from the point of view of functional user possibilities for the environmental building simulation.
Introduction of control volume method for zone modelling. Methods of multi-zone integrated methods of heat and energy flows, and moisture transport in building constructions including evaluation of building services (HVAC systems) operation.
Simulation of indoor climate and energy efficiency of building in real time and scale for the reference outdoor climatic conditions in the format TRY (DRY).
Determination of boundary conditions of indoor and outdoor environment for the methods of dynamic simulation of indoor climate in buildings.
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2. Introduction of modelling energy flowpast and heat transfer in multi zone building models.
3. Introduction in control volume methods for multi-zone moddeling.
4. Analytical formulations for dynamic building energy modelling-time and frequency domain response function methods.
5. Formulations of the numerical method by deriving conservation equations for characteristic control volumes.
6. Demonstration of conservation equation-set formulation for a simple building example.
7. Derivation of the complementary approaches to the modelling of inter- and intra-room air movement and moisture flow within the building fabric.
8. Application of the theory of numerical methods from lecture 5 to heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC), renewable energy conservation and control system.
9. Introduction in models for the technical sub-systems for the parameters of the conservation equations and non-stationary boundary conditions.
10. Classification of boundary conditions: weather, non-ortogonal gemetry, shading and insulation, short wave and longwave radiation exchange, surface convection.
11. Examples of simulation in the real-time and real scale context of design practice.
12. Methods of validation of building models for energy simulation in buildings.
13. Analysis of simulation results for evaluation of indoor climate and energy efficiency of buildings.
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Received knowledge enable students to use evailable simulation software for simulation in buildings for the evaluation and classification of quality of indoor climate, energy efficiency of buildings and operation of building services (HVAC systems) with use of integrated simulation and zone modelling.
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