Modelica
From March 4-6, 2019, the 13th International Modelica Conference was held in Regensburg, Germany. Dr. Zuo attended the conference and presented our research. He also visited three German institutes: Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics (IBP),
The 12th International Modelica Conference was held from May 15th to 17th in Prague, Czech Republic. Dr. Zuo attended the conference and presented our paper titled "Coupled simulation between CFD and multizone models based on Modelica Buildings
On March 30, 2017, LBNL released version 4.0.0 of Modelica Buildings Library including new models for district energy systems and fast house models. SBS Lab researchers Yangyang Fu and Wei Tian contributed to this new version.This version contains
Dr. Zuo visited the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory during 11/14-15, 2016. He gave a presentation at the semiar titled "From Buildings to Cities: Research and Development of Modelica-based Technique for Real-world Applications" at the
Dr. Zuo and his PhD student, Yangyang Fu, presented at the North America Modelica Users鈥 Group Conference held in Troy, Michigan on September 29th, 2016. The topic of their presentation is 鈥淢odelica-based Modelling for Net Zero Communities鈥.
Improving the energy efficiency of chilled water plants is important since they account for about 35% the energy consumed by commercial building cooling equipment in the U.S. Model predictive control is a feasible way to enhance the operational