Seminar 88 -- Whole Greater Than the Sum: Coupling Building Simulation Techniques PDF

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There are many tools available to the modern HVAC designer, capable of modeling different aspects of building performance at different levels of detail. Even though there are trade-offs when choosing one tool over another there are applications that require the benefits of more than one tool. This seminar will focus on combining various modelling tools to design data centers and commercial spaces. The combination of various methodologies including CFD, flow network modeling, city building energy models and multizone methods will be presented and the applications and drawbacks of each will be discussed.

1. Bridging the Scale Divide
   Mark Seymour, Member, Future Facilities, London, United Kingdom
2. Strategizing Building Ventilation System Operations for Energy Saving and Mitigating COVID-19 Infection Risks By Coupling Weather Forecasting and City Building Energy Models
   Liangzhu Wang, Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada
3. Coupling Potential-Flow and Flow-Network Models for Fast Data Center Thermal Analysis
   James VanGilder, P.E., Member, Schneider Electric, Andover, MA
4. Coupled CFD-Multizone-Modelica Models for Dynamic Simulation of Indoor Environment and HVAC Systems
   Wangda Zuo, Ph.D., Member, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
5. CFD As a Cutting-Edge Tool in Energy Saving and Cost Reduction
   Reza Ghias, Ph.D., Member, SIMULATIONPRIME LLC, Rockville, MD