Publications
Publications By Research Area
2024
Xu, Yujie, Pouya Vahmani, Andrew Jones, and Tianzhen Hong."Anthropogenic heat from buildings in Los Angeles County: A simulation framework and assessment."Sustainable Cities and Society
107 (2024) 105468. DOI
Krelling, Amanda Fraga, Roberto Lamberts, Jeetika Malik, Wanni Zhang, Kaiyu Sun, and Tianzhen Hong."Defining weather scenarios for simulation-based assessment of thermal resilience of buildings under current and future climates: A case study in Brazil."Sustainable Cities and Society
107 (2024) 105460. DOI
Liang, Wei, Han Li, Sicheng Zhan, Adrian Chong, and Tianzhen Hong."Energy flexibility quantification of a tropical net-zero office building using physically consistent neural network-based model predictive control."Advances in Applied Energy
14 (2024) 100167. DOI
Robinson, Alastair, Samuel Fernandes, Tianzhen Hong, Sang Hoon Lee, Ronnen M. Levinson, and Mary Ann Piette."Potential Urban Heat Island Countermeasures and Building Energy Efficiency Improvements in Los Angeles County."
(2024).
Wu, Jiyuan, Lan Wang, Tianzhen Hong, Qinran Hu, and Wei Wang."Revealing and optimizing the design of cover installation for outdoor units of air conditioners through CFD simulations and thermodynamic modeling."Journal of Building Engineering
87 (2024) 109014. DOI
Lee, Sang Hoon, Tianzhen Hong, Minh Le, Lujuana Medina, Yujie Xu, Alastair Robinson, and Mary Ann Piette."Assessment of energy and thermal resilience performance to inform climate mitigation of multifamily buildings in disadvantaged communities."Sustainable Cities and Society
104 (2024) 105319. DOI
Ham, Sang woo, Lazlo Paul, Donghun Kim, Marco Pritoni, Richard E. Brown, and Jingjuan Feng."Decarbonization of heat pump dual fuel systems using a practical model predictive control: Field demonstration in a small commercial building."Applied Energy
361 (2024) 122935. DOI
Coraci, Davide, Silvio Brandi, Tianzhen Hong, and Alfonso Capozzoli."An innovative heterogeneous transfer learning framework to enhance the scalability of deep reinforcement learning controllers in buildings with integrated energy systemsAbstract."Building Simulation
17.5 (2024) 739 - 770. DOI
Pan, Xiyu, Yujie Xu, and Tianzhen Hong."Surrogate modelling for urban building energy simulation based on the bidirectional long short-term memory model."Journal of Building Performance Simulation
(2024) 1 - 19. DOI
Li, Han, Giuseppe Pinto, Marco Savino Piscitelli, Alfonso Capozzoli, and Tianzhen Hong."Building thermal dynamics modeling with deep transfer learning using a large residential smart thermostat dataset."Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
130 (2024) 107701. DOI
Zhao, Haoran, Wanyu R. Chan, Chrissi Antonopoulos, Eric Martin, Paul Francisco, Iain S. Walker, and Brett C. Singer."Mechanical Ventilation and IAQ in Recently Constructed US Homes."Indoor Air 2024
(2024).
Walker, Iain S., Brennan Less, Cara Lozinsky, David M. Lorenzetti, Nuria Casquero-Modrego, and Michael D. Sohn."Compartmentalization and Ventilation System Impacts on Air and Contaminant Transport for Multifamily Buildings."International Journal of Ventilation.
(2024). DOI
Shackelford, Jordan, Spencer M. Dutton, Cynthia Regnier, Wanyu R. Chan, and Alastair Robinson."Modeled Retrofit Package Performance for Schools."
(2024). DOI
Lu, Hongyou, Kairui You, Wei Feng, Nan Zhou, David Fridley, Lynn Price, and Stephane de la Rue du Can."Reducing China’s building material embodied emissions: Opportunities and challenges to achieve carbon neutrality in building materials."iScience
27.3 (2024) 109028. DOI
Webster, Brett, Lucas Toffoli, Martha Campbell, Aven Satre-Meloy, Leslie Badger, Alison Donovan, Damon Lane, Kevin McGrath, Eric Wilson, Janet Reyna, Cheryn Metzger, and Tyler Pilet."Accelerating Residential Building Decarbonization: Market Guidance to Scale Zero-Carbon-Aligned Buildings."Advanced Building Construction
(2024).
Park, Jiwon, Kwang Ho Lee, Sang Hoon Lee, and Tianzhen Hong."Benefits assessment of cool skin and ventilated cavity skin: Saving energy and mitigating heat and grid stress."Building and Environment
247 (2024) 111027. DOI
Gerke, Brian F., Marius Stübs, Samanvitha Murthy, Aditya Khandekar, Peter Cappers, Richard E. Brown, and Mary Ann Piette."Potential bill impacts of dynamic electricity pricing on California utility customers."
(2024). DOI
Haddad, Shamila, Wanni Zhang, Riccardo Paolini, Kai Gao, Muzahim Altheeb, Abdulrahman Al Mogirah, Abdullatif BinMoammar, Tianzhen Hong, Ansar Khan, C. Cartalis, A. Polydorose, and Mattheos Santamouris."Quantifying the Energy Impact of Heat Mitigation in Cities: A Catalyst for Building Energy Saving."Nature Cities
(2024).
Haddad, Shamila, Wanni Zhang, Riccardo Paolini, Kai Gao, Muzahim Altheeb, Abdulrahman Al Mogirah, Abdullatif BinMoammar, Tianzhen Hong, Ansar Khan, Constantinos Cartalis, Anastasios Polydoros, and Mattheos Santamouris."Quantifying the energy impact of heat mitigation technologies at the urban scale."Nature Cities
1.1 (2024) 62 - 72. DOI
Zhao, Haoran, Iain S. Walker, William W. Delp, and Brett C. Singer."Performance and usage of mechanical residential kitchen ventilation."ASHRAE Winter 2024
(2024).
Fernandes, Luis L., and Cynthia Regnier."Zero Net Energy Retrofits for Small Commercial Offices: Zero Net Energy Package and Tubular Daylighting Device FLEXLAB Test Results Report."
(2024).
2023
Munankarmi, Prateek, Eric Wilson, Janet L. Reyna, Elaina Present, Stacey Rothgeb, and Aven Satre-Meloy."Modeled Results of Four Residential Energy Efficiency Measure Packages for Deriving Advanced Building Construction Research Targets."
(2023). DOI
Queiroz, Natália, Luis L. Fernandes, and Fernando OscarRutt Pereira."Comparison of Fast Daylighting Climate-Based Simulation Methods for Parametric Design: Two-Phase, Three-Phase Method and Path Tracing."Architectural Engineering and Design Management
(2023) 1 - 19. DOI
Liu, Jingjing, Lili Yu, Rongxin Yin, Mary Ann Piette, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, and Peter Schwartz."Factors Influencing Building Demand Flexibility."
(2023). DOI
Wetter, Michael, and Matthias Sulzer."A call to action for building energy system modelling in the age of decarbonization."Journal of Building Performance Simulation
(2023) 1 - 11. DOI