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IBPSA France 2022

AREP L'hypercube attended the IBPSA France 2022 conference (at Châlons-en-Champagne, may 19th-20th), to present a paper entitled " Computation of View Factors between polygons - Application to urban thermal and comfort studies« .

Des travaux sont en cours pour rendre ces codes open-source, sous forme de librairie Python : pyViewFactor

Abacus of VF between a wall and an individual (cylinder)

Comparison of surface temperatures with and without taking into account the exact view factors

MRT computation with view factors

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The PET comfort index included to the pyThermalComfort Python library

Our version of the Physiological Equivalent Temperature (PET) comfort index, published in 2018 in Building&Environment has made it to pythermalcomforta project from the Center for the Built Environment (CBE) at UC Berkeley (amongst others S. Tartarini & S. Schiavon)

pyThermalComfort includes many other comfort metrics (PMV/PPD, SET, DR... a bit lost? A recap here) and the steady state PET is naturally added for a wider diffusion of this reference model.

More information in the documentation !

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IBPSA 2021 Conference

We will be participating to theInternational Building Performance Simulation Association conference in Bruges in September this year.

Three paper will be presented, exposing part of the research done last year:

  • Urban Heat Island modeling with: Simulation of outdoor thermal comfort: A tweak with EnergyPlus
  • Spatialised computation of indoor comfort levels in semi-open spaces: Spatial distribution of thermal comfort: A case study in Paris’ station
  • Infrared radiation and polymer materials such as ETFE: A Spectral Model for Longwave Radiant Heat Transfer: Influence of New generation Polymers in BES

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"Building Physics" publication

This post promotes a non-commercial announcement!

The result of a year's work is an open-source book published by a member of the team, dealing with problems in building physics and soberly entitled:

« Building Physics – Applications in Python »

The main features of the book are the following: