Calibrating historic building energy models to hourly indoor air and surface temperatures: Methodology and case study

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 108, Issue , 2015, Pages 236-243

  Roberti, Francesca ^a,b   Oberegger, Ulrich Filippi ^a   Gasparella, Andrea ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calibration; Case study; EnergyPlus; Historic building; Monitoring; Particle swarm optimization; Sensitivity analysis; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BENCHMARKING; CALIBRATION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; ERRORS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MONITORING; OPTIMIZATION; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMAL COMFORT; WASTE DISPOSAL;

BUILDING ENERGY MODEL; CALIBRATION METHODOLOGIES; ENERGYPLUS; HISTORIC BUILDINGS; INDOOR AIR TEMPERATURE; PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SIMULATION;

BUILDINGS;

EID: 84942854254     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2015.09.010     Document Type: Article

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