Calibration of building energy models for retrofit analysis under uncertainty

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 47, Issue , 2012, Pages 550-560

  Heo, Y ^a   Choudhary, R ^b   Augenbroe, G A ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian calibration; Normative energy models; Retrofit analysis; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN CALIBRATION; BUILDING ENERGY MODEL; CALIBRATED MODEL; ENERGY MODEL; ENERGY RETROFIT; EXISTING BUILDING; HEAT BALANCE EQUATIONS; LARGE SCALE INVESTMENTS; LIGHT WEIGHT; MODEL PARAMETERS; PROBABILISTIC METHODOLOGY; PROBABILISTIC OUTPUT; PROBABILISTIC PREDICTION; QUASI-STEADY STATE; RETROFIT ANALYSIS;

BUILDINGS; CALIBRATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; RETROFITTING;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84857063485     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2011.12.029     Document Type: Article

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