Building performance simulation modeling techniques

Modeling and Simulation Techniques

Simulation Building Blocks for Airport Terminal Modeling

Airports are an ideal application area for simulation. The processes are in a continuous state of change, are complex and stochastic, involve many moving objects, and require a good performance that can be measured in several different performance indicators. Within airports, but also between airports, the same kind of questions are answered over and over again. Often, however, new simulation m...

Uncalibrated Building Energy Simulation Modeling Results

Uncalibrated simulations have provided useful data but often with questionable accuracy. For this study, a protocol was developed for performing the uncalibrated simulations and then applied to four buildings for which consumption data were available. The protocol implementation involved using two levels, which allowed a total of 40 hours to survey the building, read the as-built information, a...

Reusability Techniques for Building a Simulation Environment and Modeling Communication Systems

The dynamic expansion of communication networks has grown considerably during the past two decades to meet the increasing demand of sophisticated users. The widespread use of LANs and the advent of new technologies such as ATM and frame relay are creating new problems for both managers and designers of telecommunication networks. Indeed, the design, analysis, and optimization of performance of ...

On System Simulation for Building Performance Evaluation

This paper gives an overview and examples of various approaches to system simulation in buildings. Advantages and disadvantages of the different methods with respect to problems commonly encountered in building performance evaluation are described. Merits and drawbacks of the various methods and approaches are illustrated by case study material. Finally some conclusions and directions for futur...