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SRC: a systemic approach to building thermal simulation

Rovas Dimitrios, Lilis Georgios-Nektarios, Sklivaniotis Konstantinos F. , Giannakis Georgios

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URI: http://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/541E2FC2-680D-432F-B9EF-9F8CF7AF743E
Year 2014
Type of Item Conference Poster
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Bibliographic Citation G. N. Lilis, K. F. Sklivaniotis, G. I. Giannakis and D. V. Rovas, "SRC: a systemic approach to building thermal simulation," presented at 13th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association, 2014.
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SRC (System of Resistances and Capacitances), is a new building thermal simulation program which uses an RC-Network representation to model the thermal flow among building elements and an H-Network rep- resentation to model the humidity mass flow among building air volumes. Two coupled systems of ODEs are formed based on these representations, which are solved using a forward numerical scheme of varying time step. This systemic approach enables a linear, time varying approximation of building’s thermal be- havior to be realized, allowing state space-based con- trol techniques to be applied. SRC’s performance is evaluated using IEA-BESTEST diagnostic case build- ings. The obtained results, which include annual heat- ing and cooling demands as well as temperature data, are validated using the results of other software as ref- erences.

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