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), Coburg University of Applied Sciences, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, and discussed opportunities for collaborations. Photo shows Dr...

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 library to study indoor environment control."

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 the following major additions: Buildings.Experimental.DistrictHeatingCooling with models for district heating and...

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 Energy Technologies Area. The contents of the presentation are listed below: As an innovative approach for...

Dr. Zuo and his PhD student, Yangyang Fu, presented at the North America Modelica Users’ Group Conference held in Troy, Michigan on September 29th, 2016. The topic of their presentation is “Modelica-based Modelling for Net Zero Communities”. Detailed information about the North America Modelica Users’ Group can be found at...

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 efficiency of the chilled water plants. Our research is to develop a...