Determining the energy performance of manually controlled solar shades: A stochastic model based co-simulation analysis

Applied Energy

Volumn 127, Issue , 2014, Pages 64-80

  Yao, Jian ^a,b  

^a NINGBO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

BCVTB; Building energy efficiency; Co simulation; Manually controlled solar shades; Markov method; Stochastic model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; OFFICE BUILDINGS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; SUN;

BCVTB; BUILDING ENERGY EFFICIENCY; COSIMULATION; MANUALLY CONTROLLED SOLAR SHADES; MARKOV METHOD;

STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

BUILDING; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MARKOV CHAIN; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SOLAR POWER; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 84899869351     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2014.04.046     Document Type: Article

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