Publications: BTUS Modeling and Simulation
2022
Wetter, Michael, Paul Ehrlich, Antoine Gautier, Milica Grahovac, Philip Haves, Jianjun Hu, Anand Prakash, Dave Robin, and Kun Zhang."OpenBuildingControl: Digitizing the control delivery from building energy modeling to specification, implementation and formal verification."Energy
238 (2022) 121501. DOI
2021
Sun, Kaiyu, Wanni Zhang, Zhaoyun Zeng, Ronnen M. Levinson, Max Wei, and Tianzhen Hong."Passive cooling designs to improve heat resilience of homes in underserved and vulnerable communities."Energy and Buildings
252 (2021) 111383. DOI
Baudette, Maxime, Jaimie Swartz, Keith Moffat, Jasper Pakshong, Leo Chu, Christoph Gehbauer, and Alexandra von Meier."Hardware-In-the-Loop Benchmarking Setup for Phasor Based Control Validation."
(2021). DOI
Putra, Handi Chandra, and Tianzhen Hong."Application of the DNAS framework expansion to occupant population synthesis."IBPSA Building Simulation Conference 2021
(2021).
Blum, David, Javier Arroyo, Sen Huang, Ján Drgoňa, Filip Jorissen, Harald Taxt Walnum, Yan Chen, Kyle Benne, Draguna Vrabie, Michael Wetter, and Lieve Helsen."Building optimization testing framework (BOPTEST) for simulation-based benchmarking of control strategies in buildings."Journal of Building Performance Simulation
14.5 (2021) 586 - 610. DOI
Wetter, Michael, Jianjun Hu, Anand Prakash, Paul Ehrlich, Gabe Fierro, Milica Grahovac, Marco Pritoni, Lisa Rivalin, and Dave Robin."Modelica-json: Transforming energy models to digitize the control delivery process."IBPSA Building Simulation Conference 2021
(2021).
Luo, Na, Marco Pritoni, and Tianzhen Hong."An overview of data tools for representing and managing building information and performance data."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
147 (2021) 111224. DOI
Luo, Na, Jared Langevin, and Handi Chandra Putra."Quantifying the effect of multiple demand response actions on electricity demand and building services via surrogate modeling."IBPSA Building Simulation Conference 2021
(2021).
Hong, Tianzhen, Yujie Xu, Kaiyu Sun, Wanni Zhang, Xuan Luo, and Barry Hooper."Urban microclimate and its impact on building performance: A case study of San Francisco."Urban Climate
38 (2021) 100871. DOI
Li, Han, Zhe Wang, Tianzhen Hong, Andrew Parker, and Monica Neukomm."Characterizing patterns and variability of building electric load profiles in time and frequency domains."Applied Energy
291 (2021) 116721. DOI
Gerber, Daniel L., Fariborz Musavi, Omkar Ghatpande, Stephen M. Frank, Jason Poon, Richard E. Brown, and Wei Feng."A Comprehensive Loss Model and Comparison of AC and DC Boost Converters."Energies
14.11 (2021) 3131. DOI
Wei, Max, Sang Hoon Lee, Tianzhen Hong, Brian Conlon, Lucy McKenzie, Bob Hendron, and Alea German."Approaches to cost-effective near-net zero energy new homes with time-of-use value of energy and battery storage."Advances in Applied Energy
2 (2021) 100018. DOI
Putra, Handi Chandra, Tianzhen Hong, and Clinton Andrews."An ontology to represent synthetic building occupant characteristics and behavior."Automation in Construction
125 (2021) 103621. DOI
Wang, Zhe, Tianzhen Hong, Han Li, and Mary Ann Piette."Predicting city-scale daily electricity consumption using data-driven models."Advances in Applied Energy
2 (2021) 100025. DOI
Ferrando, Martina, Tianzhen Hong, and Francesco Causone."A simulation-based assessment of technologies to reduce heat emissions from buildings."Building and Environment
195 (2021) 107772. DOI
Helmns, Dre, David Blum, Armando Casillas, Anand Prakash, Jonathan Woolley, David Vernon, Caton Mande, Michael Woodcox, and Spencer M. Dutton."Towards a Techno-Economic Analysis of PCM-Integrated Hybrid HVAC Systems."6th International High Performance Buildings Conference at Purdue
(2021).
He, zhiyuan, Tianzhen Hong, and Siaw K. Chou."A framework for estimating the energy-saving potential of occupant behaviour improvement."Applied Energy
287 (2021) 116591. DOI
Xu, Yujie, Tianzhen Hong, Wanni Zhang, Zhaoyun Zeng, and Max Wei."Heat Vulnerability Index Development and Mapping."SimAUD 2021
(2021).
Carnieletto, Laura, Martina Ferrando, Lorenzo Teso, Kaiyu Sun, Wanni Zhang, Francesco Causone, Piercarlo Romagnoni, Angelo Zarrella, and Tianzhen Hong."Italian prototype building models for urban scale building performance simulation."Building and Environment
192 (2021) 107590. DOI
Li, Haoran, Juan Hou, Tianzhen Hong, Yuemin Ding, and Natasa Nord."Energy, economic, and environmental analysis of integration of thermal energy storage into district heating systems using waste heat from data centres."Energy
219 (2021) 119582. DOI
Li, Han, Zhe Wang, and Tianzhen Hong."Occupant-Centric key performance indicators to inform building design and operations."Journal of Building Performance Simulation
(2021) 1 - 29. DOI
Wetter, Michael, Paul Ehrlich, Antoine Gautier, Milica Grahovac, Philip Haves, Jianjun Hu, and Kun Zhang."Open Building Control."
(2021).
Gui, Chenxi, Da Yan, Tianzhen Hong, Chan Xiao, Siyue Guo, and Yifan Tao."Vertical meteorological patterns and their impact on the energy demand of tall buildings."Energy and Buildings
232 (2021) 110624. DOI
Sulzer, Matthias, Sven Werner, Stefan Mennel, and Michael Wetter."Vocabulary for the fourth generation of district heating and cooling."Smart Energy
1 (2021) 100003. DOI
Helmns, Dre, David H. Blum, Spencer M. Dutton, and Van P. Carey."Development and Validation of a Latent Thermal Energy Storage Model Using Modelica."Energies
14.1 (2021) 194. DOI