Generation Tool for Automated Thermal City Modelling

Abstract:

Constructing dynamic building models of entire urban districts or cities is a time consuming effort. An automation process is required to shorten the considerable time needed for manual input and to parameterize simulation tools. This paper presents a generation tool for fully automated thermal city modelling that generates dynamic building models with detailed heating systems. The tool is an interface between a PostgreSQL database and the dynamic building energy simulation environment IDA ICE. Tests show that up to 300 automated generated buildings with a simple geometry and 70 buildings each with a heating system can be simulated per CPU.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 887)
• Pages: 292-299
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.887.292
• Online since: January 2019
• Authors: Peter Nageler*, Thomas Mach, Richard Heimrath, Hermann Schranzhofer, Christoph Hochenauer
• Keywords: Automation, Dynamic Simulation, IDA ICE, Urban Energy Modelling

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