Nowadays, large open spaces are popular in office buildings. However, occupants often
complain about too cold and/or too warm in large open spaces. It remains a challenge to …

In office buildings, the space layout usually needs to be repeatedly redesigned in order to
meet tenants' requirements during the building's life cycle. In this study, the effect of a flexible …

The relative location of inlets and outlets plays an important role in thermal comfort and
energy conservation under ventilation modes for the building non-uniform indoor …

The thermal environment quality of office buildings has an important role because thermal
comfort is directly related to human productivity. Thermal comfort conditions are influenced …

The growing energy consumption and thermal comfort of an air-conditioned room have
attracted increasing public attention. As such, the performance of air-conditioning systems …

Building energy simulations are mostly implemented using network or multi-zone models
that do not consider indoor air temperature and velocity distribution. However, the recent …

Urban configuration plays a pivotal role in the current energy crisis by providing more
thermally appropriate local microclimates leading to the efficient functioning of building …

There is a lack of an urban building energy modeling framework that considers the influence
of surrounding buildings and local urban climate on building thermal performance. This can …

In tall and large (T&L) public spaces, occupant distribution and its variation may impact the
thermal environment and thus the operation of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning …

The paper presents a review of existing literature in the field of coupling Computational Fluid
Dynamics (CFD) with Building Energy Simulations (BES) to better predict indoor …