Publications

X Term: BTUS Modeling and Simulation

2020

Gerke, Brian F, Giulia Gallo, Sarah Josephine Smith, Jingjing Liu, Shuba V Raghavan, Peter Schwartz, Mary Ann Piette, Rongxin Yin, and Sofia Stensson."The California Demand Response Potential Study, Phase 3: Final Report on the Shift Resource through 2030." (2020). 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 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. 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 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 Blum, Taoning Wang, and Eleanor S Lee."Integrated Dynamic Facade Control with an Agent-based Architecture for Commercial Buildings." (2020).
Wang, Zhe, and Tianzhen Hong."Learning occupants’ indoor comfort temperature through a Bayesian inference approach for office buildings in United States."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 119 (2020) 109593. DOI
Hong, Tianzhen, Chien-Fei Chen, Zhe Wang, and Xiaojing Xu."Linking human-building interactions in shared offices with personality traits."Building and Environment 170 (2020) 106602. DOI
Méndez, Juana Isabel, Omar Mata, Pedro Ponce, Alan K Meier, Therese Peffer, and Arturo Molina."Studies in Systems, Decision and ControlChallenges and Trends in Multimodal Fall Detection for HealthcareMulti-sensor System, Gamification, and Artificial Intelligence for Benefit Elderly People." 273 (2020) 207 - 235. DOI
Li, Han, Tianzhen Hong, Sang Hoon Lee, and Marina Sofos."System-level key performance indicators for building performance evaluation."Energy and Buildings 209 (2020) 109703. DOI
Hong, Tianzhen, Yixing Chen, Xuan Luo, Na Luo, and Sang Hoon Lee."Ten questions on urban building energy modeling."Building and Environment 168 (2020) 106508. DOI
Prakash, Anand, Samir Touzani, Mariam Kiran, Shreya Agarwal, Marco Pritoni, and Jessica Granderson."Deep Reinforcement Learning in Buildings: Implicit Assumptions and their Impact."RLEM'20: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Reinforcement Learning for Energy Management in Buildings & Cities (2020). DOI
Sanchez, Lino, Paul A Mathew, Sang Hoon Lee, and Travis Walter."Developing and Evaluating a Metric for Office Building Energy Resilience During a Power Outage."2020 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020).
Wetter, Michael, Kyle Benne, Antoine Gautier, Thierry S Nouidui, Agnes Ramle, Amir Roth, Hubertus Tummescheit, Stuart Mentzer, and Christian Winther."Lifting the Garage Door on Spawn, an Open-Source BEM-Controls Engine.."2020 BPAC & Simbuild (2020) 518-525.