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Publication
WSC 2013
Conference paper
An inverse PDE-ODE model for studying building energy demand
Abstract
Development of an accurate heat transfer model of buildings is of high importance. Such a model can be used for analyzing energy efficiency of buildings, predicting energy consumption and providing decision support for energy efficient operation of buildings. In this paper, we propose a PDE-ODE hybrid model to describe heat transfer through building envelope as well as heat evolution inside building. A inversion procedure is presented to recover parameters of equations from sensor data and building characteristic so that the model represents a specific building with current physical condition. By matching the simulated temperature and thermal energy dynamic profile with EnergyPlus generated data and actual field data, we validate the model and demonstrate its capability to predict energy demand under various operation condition. © 2013 IEEE.