Natural Ventilation (NV) contributes to the energy performance and Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)
of existing buildings and Nearly Zero Energy Buildings (NZEB). To predict and validate the …

The adjoint method has been used in the indoor environment for more than ten years, but it
has not been widely used up to now. This paper describes the current state of the adjoint …

Abstract Directly using CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) for ventilation prediction and
control is time-consuming and data-storage-expensive. Construction of linear system is of …

Coupling modelling and monitoring has always been a very challenging task aiming for
indoor air pollution control towards the construction of safe, healthy and energy-efficient …

To help create a comfortable and healthy indoor and outdoor environment in which to live,
there is a need to understand turbulent air flows within the urban environment. To this end …

Obtaining a detailed indoor airflow field is important for the accurate and efficient control of
indoor environmental comfort. Traditional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods and …

Highlights•The development of a new dynamic Smagorinsky model which obtains coefficient
by ANN.•The ANN model is trained from a simple case and is generalizable to other …

The indoor environment is important to the daily lives of humans. Fast and accurate
prediction of indoor environments is desirable with regard to practical applications, such as …

Although computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has been widely adopted to improve data
center thermal management, the high computational demand limits its applications, such as …

In this study, the gappy proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) method was used in
combination with finite sensors and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations to …