Publications
Publications By Research Area
2018
Tarroja, Brian, Felicia Chiang, Amir AghaKouchak, Scott Samuelsen, Shuba V. Raghavan, Max Wei, Kaiyu Sun, and Tianzhen Hong."Translating climate change and heating system electrification impacts on building energy use to future greenhouse gas emissions and electric grid capacity requirements in California."Applied Energy
225 (2018) 522 - 534. DOI
Hong, Tianzhen, Jared Langevin, and Kaiyu Sun."Building Simulation: Ten Challenges."Building Simulation
11 (2018). DOI
Zhang, Rongpeng, Kaiyu Sun, Tianzhen Hong, Yoshinori Yura, and Ryohei Hinokuma."A Novel Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) Heat Recovery System Model: Development and Validation."Energy and Buildings
168 (2018). DOI
Regnier, Cynthia, Kaiyu Sun, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette."Quantifying the benefits of a building retrofit using an integrated system approach: A case study."Energy and Buildings
159 (2018). DOI
2017
Wallace, Nancy, Paulo Issler, Paul A. Mathew, and Kaiyu Sun."Impact of Energy Factors on Default Risk in Commercial Mortgages."
(2017).
Mathew, Paul A., Kaiyu Sun, Baptiste Ravache, Paulo Issler, and Nancy Wallace."Impact of Energy Use and Price Variations on Default Risk in Commercial Mortgages: Case Studies."
(2017).
Piette, Mary Ann, Tianzhen Hong, William J. Fisk, Norman Bourassa, Wanyu R. Chan, Yixing Chen, H.Y. Iris Cheung, Toshifumi Hotchi, Margarita Kloss, Sang Hoon Lee, Phillip N. Price, Oren Schetrit, Kaiyu Sun, Sarah C. Taylor-Lange, and Rongpeng Zhang."Small and Medium Building Efficiency Toolkit and Community Demonstration Program."
(2017). DOI
Sun, Kaiyu, and Tianzhen Hong."A Framework for Quantifying the Impact of Occupant Behavior on Energy Savings of Energy Conservation Measures."
(2017).
An, Jingjing, Da Yan, Tianzhen Hong, and Kaiyu Sun."A Novel Stochastic Modeling Method to Simulate Cooling Loads in Residential Districts."
(2017).
Zhang, Qi, Da Yan, Jingjing An, Tianzhen Hong, Wei Tian, and Kaiyu Sun."Spatial Distribution of Internal Heat Gains: A Probabilistic Representation and Evaluation of Its Influence on Cooling Equipment Sizing in Large Office Buildings."Energy and Buildings
(2017). DOI
2016
Yu, Xinqiao, Da Yan, Kaiyu Sun, Tianzhen Hong, and Dandan Zhu."A Comparative Study on Energy Performance of Variable Refrigerant Flow Systems and Variable Air Volume Systems in Office Buildings."Applied Energy
(2016).
Sun, Kaiyu, and Tianzhen Hong."A Simulation Approach to Estimate Energy Savings Potential of Occupant Behavior Measures."Energy and Buildings
(2016).
2015
Hong, Tianzhen, Mary Ann Piette, Yixing Chen, Sang Hoon Lee, Sarah C. Taylor-Lange, Rongpeng Zhang, Kaiyu Sun, and Phillip N. Price."Commercial Building Energy Saver: An energy retrofit analysis toolkit."Applied Energy
159 (2015). DOI
Hong, Tianzhen, Kaiyu Sun, Rongpeng Zhang, Ryohei Hinokuma, Shinichi Kasahara, and Yoshinori Yura."Development and validation of a new variable refrigerant flow systemmodel in EnergyPlus."Energy and Buildings
117 (2015). DOI
Sun, Kaiyu, Tianzhen Hong, Sarah C. Taylor-Lange, and Mary Ann Piette."A pattern-based automated approach to building energy model calibration."
(2015).