Publications: BTUS Modeling and Simulation
2021
Qian, Mingyang, Da Yan, Tianzhen Hong, and Hua Liu."Operation and performance of VRF systems: Mining a large-scale dataset."Energy and Buildings
230 (2021) 110519. DOI
Sun, Kaiyu, Na Luo, Xuan Luo, and Tianzhen Hong."Prototype energy models for data centers."Energy and Buildings
231 (2021) 110603. DOI
Langevin, Jared, Chioke B. Harris, Aven Satre-Meloy, Handi Chandra Putra, Andrew Speake, Elaina Present, Rajendra Adhikari, Eric Wilson, and Andrew Satchwell."U.S. Building Energy Efficiency and Flexibility as an Electric Grid Resource."SSRN Electronic Journal
(2021). DOI
2020
Cho, Brian, Teresa Dayrit, Yuan Gao, Zhe Wang, Tianzhen Hong, Alex Sim, and Kesheng."Effective Missing Value Imputation Methods for Building Monitoring Data."IEEE BigData 2020
(2020). DOI
Hong, Tianzhen, Daniel Macumber, Han Li, Katherine Fleming, and Zhe Wang."Generation and representation of synthetic smart meter data."Building Simulation
13.6 (2020) 1205 - 1220. DOI
Ueno, Tsuyoshi, and Alan K. Meier."A method to generate heating and cooling schedules based on data from connected thermostats."Energy and Buildings
228 (2020) 110423. DOI
Luo, Xuan, Pouya Vahmani, Tianzhen Hong, and Andrew Jones."City-Scale Building Anthropogenic Heating during Heat Waves."Atmosphere
11.11 (2020) 1206. DOI
Langevin, Jared, Janet L. Reyna, S. Ebrahimigharehbaghi, N. Sandberg, P. Fennell, C. Nägeli, J. Laverge, M. Delghust, É. Mata, M. Van Hove, J. Webster, F. Federico, M. Jakob, and C. Camarasa."Developing a common approach for classifying building stock energy models."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
133 (2020) 110276. DOI
An, Jingjing, Da Yan, Siyue Guo, Yan Gao, Jinqing Peng, and Tianzhen Hong."An improved method for direct incident solar radiation calculation from hourly solar insolation data in building energy simulation."Energy and Buildings
227 (2020) 110425. DOI
Fierro, Gabe, Anand Prakash, Cory Mosiman, Marco Pritoni, Paul Raftery, Michael Wetter, and David Culler."Interactive Metadata Integration with Brick."BuildSys '20: Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation
(2020). DOI
Hong, Tianzhen, Martina Ferrando, Xuan Luo, and Francesco Causone."Modeling and analysis of heat emissions from buildings to ambient air."Applied Energy
277 (2020) 115566. DOI
Bergmann, Harry, Cory Mosiman, Avijit Saha, Selam Haile, William Livingood, Steven Bushby, Gabe Fierro, Joel Bender, Michael Poplawski, Jessica Granderson, and Marco Pritoni."Semantic Interoperability to Enable Smart, Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings."2020 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings
(2020). DOI
Fierro, Gabe, Anand Prakash, Cory Mosiman, Marco Pritoni, Paul Raftery, Michael Wetter, and David Culler."Shepherding Metadata Through the Building Lifecycle."BuildSys '20: Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation
(2020). DOI
Chen, Bingqing, Ming Jin, Zhe Wang, Tianzhen Hong, and Mario Bergés."Towards Off-policy Evaluation as a Prerequisite for Real-world Reinforcement Learning in Building Control."BuildSys '20: The 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and TransportationProceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Reinforcement Learning for Energy Management in Buildings & Cities
(2020). DOI
Ferrando, Martina, Francesco Causone, Tianzhen Hong, and Yixing Chen."Urban building energy modeling (UBEM) tools: A state-of-the-art review of bottom-up physics-based approaches."Sustainable Cities and Society
62 (2020) 102408. DOI
Wang, Zhe, and Tianzhen Hong."Generating realistic building electrical load profiles through the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)."Energy and Buildings
224 (2020) 110299. DOI
Salim, Flora D., Bing Dong, Mohamed Ouf, Qi Wang, Ilaria Pigliautile, Xuyuan Kang, Tianzhen Hong, Wenbo Wu, Yapan Liu, Shakila Khan Rumi, Mohammad Saiedur Rahaman, Jingjing An, Hengfang Deng, Wei Shao, Jakub Dziedzic, Fisayo Caleb Sangogboye, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Meng Kong, Claudia Fabiani, Anna Laura Pisello, and Da Yan."Modelling urban-scale occupant behaviour, mobility, and energy in buildings: A survey."Building and Environment
183 (2020) 106964. DOI
Picard, Theo, Tianzhen Hong, Na Luo, Sang Hoon Lee, and Kaiyu Sun."Robustness of energy performance of Zero-Net-Energy (ZNE) homes."Energy and Buildings
224 (2020) 110251. DOI
Azar, Elie, William O'Brien, Salvatore Carlucci, Tianzhen Hong, Andrew Sonta, Joyce Jihyun Kim, Maedot S. Andargie, Tareq Abuimara, Mounir El Asmar, Rishee Jain, Mohamed Ouf, Farhang Tahmasebi, and Jin Zhou."Simulation-aided occupant-centric building design: A critical review of tools, methods, and applications."Energy and Buildings
224 (2020) 110292. DOI
Drgoňa, Ján, Javier Arroyo, Iago Cupeiro Figueroa, David H. Blum, Krzysztof Arendt, Donghun Kim, Enric Perarnau Ollé, Juraj Oravec, Michael Wetter, Draguna L. Vrabie, and Lieve Helsen."All you need to know about model predictive control for buildings."Annual Reviews in Control
(2020). DOI
Shan, , Xiaofang, Na Luo, Kaiyu Sun, Tianzhen Hong, Yi-Kuen LEE, and Wei-Zhen Lu."Coupling CFD and building energy modelling to optimize the operation of a large open office space for occupant comfort."Sustainable Cities and Society
60 (2020) 102257. DOI
Zhang, Kun, David H. Blum, Milica Grahovac, Jianjun Hu, Jessica Granderson, and Michael Wetter."Development and Verification of Control Sequences for Single- Zone Variable Air Volume System Based on ASHRAE Guideline 36."American Modelica Conference 2020
(2020). DOI
Nubbe, Valerie, Kyung Lee, Alejandro Valdez, Ed Barbour, and Jared Langevin."Grid-Interactive Efficient Building Technology Cost, Performance, and Lifetime Characteristics."
(2020). DOI
Pritoni, Marco, Anand Prakash, David H. Blum, Kun Zhang, Rui Tang, and Jessica Granderson."Advanced control sequences and FDD technology. Just shiny objects, or ready for scale?."ACEEE Summer Study 2020
(2020). DOI
Fernandes, Samuel, Eliot Crowe, Samir Touzani, and Jessica Granderson."Detecting the undetected: Dealing with non-routine events using advanced M&V meter-based savings approaches."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings
(2020). DOI