Publications: BTUS Modeling and Simulation

2020

Liu, Jingjing, Rongxin Yin, Marco Pritoni, Mary Ann Piette, and Monica Neukomm."Developing and Evaluating Metrics for Demand Flexibility in Buildings: Comparing Simulations and Field Data."ACEEE Summer Study (2020). DOI
Yoon, Nari, Leslie K. Norford, Ali Malkawi, Holly Samuelson, and Mary Ann Piette."Dynamic metrics of natural ventilation cooling effectiveness for interactive modeling."Building and Environment 180.106994 (2020). DOI
Luo, Xuan, Yu-Hang Tang, and Tianzhen Hong."Efficient Computation Of Surface Sunlit Fractions In Urban-Scale Building Modeling Using Ray-Tracing Techniques."2020 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild co-organized by ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA (2020). DOI
Zhang, Wanni, Tianzhen Hong, and Xuan Luo."Extract useful information from building permits data to profile a city’s building retrofit history."2020 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild co-organized by ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA (2020). DOI
Li, Xiangfeng, Yuan Ying, Xiaodong Xu, Yiwei Wang, Syed Asad Hussain, Tianzhen Hong, and Wei Wang."Identifying key determinants for building energy analysis from urban building datasets."Building and Environment 181 (2020) 107114. DOI
O'Brien, William, Farhang Tahmasebi, Rune Korsholm Andersen, Elie Azar, Marilena De Simone, Zsofia Belafi, Christiane Berger, Dong Chen, Simona D'Oca, Tianzhen Hong, Quan Jin, Dolaana Khovalyg, Roberto Lamberts, Vojislav Novakovic, June Young Park, Manfred Plagmann, Vinu Subashini Rajus, Marika Vellei, Silke Verbruggen, Andreas Wagner, Eric Willems, Da Yan, and Jin Zhou."An international review of occupant-related aspects of building energy codes and standards."Building and Environment 179 (2020) 106906. DOI
Yang, Bin, Xiaojing Li, Yingzhen Hou, Alan K. Meier, Xiaogang Cheng, Joon-Ho Choi, Faming Wang, Huan Wang, Andreas Wagner, Da Yan, Angui Li, Thomas Olofsson, and Haibo Li."Non-invasive (non-contact) measurements of human thermal physiology signals and thermal comfort/discomfort poses -A review."Energy and Buildings 224 (2020) 110261. DOI
Wang, Zhe, and Tianzhen Hong."Reinforcement learning for building controls: The opportunities and challenges."Applied Energy 269 (2020) 115036. DOI
Wang, Zhe, Hui Zhang, Yingdong Hi, Maohui Luo, Ziwei Li, Tianzhen Hong, and Borong Lin."Revisiting individual and group differences in thermal comfort based on ASHRAE database."Energy and Buildings 219 (2020) 110017. DOI
Malik, Jeetika, Ronita Bardhan, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette."Contextualising adaptive comfort behaviour within low-income housing of Mumbai, India."Building and Environment 177 (2020) 106877. DOI
Sun, Kaiyu, Michael Specian, and Tianzhen Hong."Nexus of thermal resilience and energy efficiency in buildings: A case study of a nursing home."Building and Environment 177 (2020) 106842. DOI
Prakash, Anand, Kun Zhang, Pranav Gupta, David H. Blum, Marc Marshall, Gabe Fierro, Peter Alstone, James Zoellic, Richard E. Brown, and Marco Pritoni."Solar+ Optimizer: A Model Predictive Control Optimization Platform for Grid Responsive Building Microgrids."Energies 13.12 (2020) 3093. DOI
Wang, Zhe, Jingyi Wang, Yueer He, Yanchen Liu, Borong Lin, and Tianzhen Hong."Dimension analysis of subjective thermal comfort metrics based on ASHRAE Global Thermal Comfort Database using machine learning."Journal of Building Engineering 29 (2020) 101120. DOI
O’Brien, William, Andreas Wagner, Marcel Schweiker, Ardeshir Mahdavi, Julia Day, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Salvatore Carlucci, Bing Dong, Farhang Tahmasebi, Da Yan, Tianzhen Hong, H. Burak Gunay, Zoltan Nagy, Clayton Miller, and Christiane Berger."Introducing IEA EBC Annex 79: Key challenges and opportunities in the field of occupant-centric building design and operation."Building and Environment (2020) 106738. DOI
Luo, , Xuan, Tianzhen Hong, and Yu-Hang Tang."Modeling Thermal Interactions between Buildings in an Urban Context."Energies 13.9 (2020) 2382. DOI
Yoon, Nari, Mary Ann Piette, Jung Min Han, Wentao Wu, and Ali Malkawi."Optimization of Window Positions for Wind-Driven Natural Ventilation Performance."Energies 13.10 (2020) 2464. DOI
Haves, Philip, Baptiste Ravache, and Mehry Yazdanian."Accuracy of HVAC Load Predictions: Validation of EnergyPlus and DOE-2 using FLEXLAB Measurements." (2020). DOI
Wang, Zhe, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette."Building thermal load prediction through shallow machine learning and deep learning."Applied Energy 263 (2020) 114683. DOI
Hong, Tianzhen, Zhe Wang, Xuan Luo, and Wanni Zhang."State-of-the-art on research and applications of machine learning in the building life cycle."Energy and Buildings 212 (2020) 109831. DOI
Kim, Donghun, Yeonjin Bea, Sehyun Yun, and James E. Braun."A methodology for generating reduced-order models for large-scale buildings using the Krylov subspace method."Journal of Building Performance Simulation 13.4 (2020) 419 - 429. DOI
Perera, A. T. D., Vahid M. Nik, Deliang Chen, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, and Tianzhen Hong."Quantifying the impacts of climate change and extreme climate events on energy systems."Nature Energy 5.2 (2020) 150 - 159. DOI
Gehbauer, Christoph, David H. Blum, Taoning Wang, and Eleanor S. Lee."An assessment of the load modifying potential of model predictive controlled dynamic facades within the California context."Energy and Buildings 210 (2020) 109762. DOI
Chen, , Chien-fei, Tianzhen Hong, Gerardo Zarazua de Rubens, Selin Yilmaz, Karol Bandurski, Zsófia Deme Bélafi, Marilena De Simone, Mateus Vinícius Bavaresco, Yu Wang, Pei-ling Liu, Verena M. Barthelmes, Jacqueline Adams, Simona D'Oca, and Łukasz Przybylski."Culture, conformity, and carbon? A multi-country analysis of heating and cooling practices in office buildings."Energy Research & Social Science 61 (2020) 101344. DOI
Hong, Tianzhen, Jared Langevin, Na Luo, and Kaiyu Sun."Energy and Behaviour Developing quantitative insights on building occupant behaviour: Supporting modelling tools and datasets." (2020) 283 - 319. DOI
Gehbauer, Christoph, David H. Blum, Taoning Wang, and Eleanor S. Lee."Integrated Dynamic Facade Control with an Agent-based Architecture for Commercial Buildings." (2020).