Optimal Sensor Placement for Time- Dependent Systems: Application to Wind Studies around Buildings

5 Warm climates pose challenges to building energy consumption and pedestrian comfort. 6 Knowledge of the wind flow around buildings can help address these issues through 7 improving natural ventilation, energy use and outdoor thermal comfort. Computational Fluid 8 Dynamics (CFD) simulations are widely used to predict wind flow around buildings, despite 9 Researcher, Singapore-ETH Centre, Future Cities Laboratory, 1 CREATE Way, CREATE Tower, Singapore 138602 (corresponding author). E-mail: [email protected] Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Building, School of Design and Environment, National Univ. of Singapore, 4 Architecture Drive, Singapore 117566 3 Associate Professor, BSB 225, Building Technology and Construction Management, Dept. of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras, Chennai 600036, Tamil Nadu, India. E-mail: [email protected] 4 Professor, Applied Computing and Mechanics Laboratory (IMAC), Civil Engineering Institute, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne 10115. E-mail: [email protected] 5 Professor, Dept. of Building, School of Design and Environment, National Univ. of Singapore, 4 Architecture Drive, Singapore 117566. E-mail: [email protected] Papadopoulou, M., Raphael, B., Smith, I.F.C. and Sekhar, C. "Optimal Sensor Placement for TimeDependent Systems: Application to Wind Studies around Buildings." J. Comput. Civ. Eng., Vol 30, no 2, 2016, 10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000497, p.04015024 http://cedb.asce.org Copyright ASCE