BSim User's Guide

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the life cycle cost of different renewable energy supply options, and identify the cost-optimal combination between energy efficiency and renewable energy generation, and conclude that in case of the on-site renewable supply option, the energy efficiency should be the first priority in order to design a costoptimal Net ZEB.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a comprehensive review of the open literature on motivations, methods and applications of linking stratified airflow simulation to building energy simulation (BES) and show that an external coupling scheme is substantially more popular in implementations of co-simulation than an internal coupling scheme.

TL;DR: This paper considers data inconsistency caused by client movements and proposes three location-dependent cache invalidation schemes and results show that, in most cases, the proposed methods substantially outperform the NSI scheme, which drops the entire cache contents when hand-off is performed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a simplified hourly calculation method to calculate yearly energy and comfort performance of an office room equipped with an intelligent facade and verified the simplified method by the Danish dynamic building simulation tool BSim and experimental test in a full scale test facility at Aalborg University (Cube).