Search Results - "Faulkner, Cary A."

Quantifying spatiotemporal variability in occupant exposure to an indoor airborne contaminant with an uncertain source location by Castellini, John E., Faulkner, Cary A., Zuo, Wangda, Sohn, Michael D.

“…Well-mixed zone models are often employed to compute indoor air quality and occupant exposures. While effective, a potential downside to assuming…”
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A Perspective of Decarbonization Pathways in Future Buildings in the United States by Ye, Yunyang, Dehwah, Ammar H. A., Faulkner, Cary A., Sathyanarayanan, Haripriya, Lei, Xuechen

“…The commitment of electrification and decarbonization goals in the United States (U.S.) will significantly change the performance of future buildings. To meet…”
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Investigation of HVAC operation strategies for office buildings during COVID-19 pandemic by Faulkner, Cary A., Castellini, John E., Zuo, Wangda, Lorenzetti, David M., Sohn, Michael D.

“…To minimize the indoor transmission of contaminants, such as the virus that can lead to COVID-19, buildings must provide the best indoor air quality possible…”
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Assessing the use of portable air cleaners for reducing exposure to airborne diseases in a conference room with thermal stratification by Castellini, John E., Faulkner, Cary A., Zuo, Wangda, Lorenzetti, David M., Sohn, Michael D.

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for strategies that mitigate the risk of aerosol disease transmission in indoor environments with different…”
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Tradeoffs among indoor air quality, financial costs, and CO2 emissions for HVAC operation strategies to mitigate indoor virus in U.S. office buildings by Faulkner, Cary A., Castellini, John E., Lou, Yingli, Zuo, Wangda, Lorenzetti, David M., Sohn, Michael D.

“…Adapting building operation during the COVID-19 pandemic to improve indoor air quality (IAQ) while ensuring sustainable solutions in terms of costs and CO2…”
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An open-source framework for simulation-based testing of buildings control strategies by Huang, Sen, Lutes, Robert, Faulkner, Cary A., L. Vrabie, Draguna, Katipamula, Srinivas, Zuo, Wangda

“…This paper presents a simulation framework for evaluating building control strategies (BCSs), developed with VOLTTRON, an opensource platform that integrates…”
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A new database of building-space-specific internal loads and load schedules for performance based code compliance modeling of commercial buildings by Ye, Yunyang, Faulkner, Cary A., Jung, Wooyoung, Zhang, Jian, Brock, Eli

“…Building-level loads and load schedules prescribed by current modeling rules save modelers time and provide standards during whole building performance…”
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Fast prediction of indoor airflow distribution inspired by synthetic image generation artificial intelligence by Faulkner, Cary A., Jankowski, Dominik S., Castellini, John E., Zuo, Wangda, Epple, Philipp, Sohn, Michael D., Kasgari, Ali Taleb Zadeh, Saad, Walid

“…Prediction of indoor airflow distribution often relies on high-fidelity, computationally intensive computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. Artificial…”
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Evaluating performance of different generative adversarial networks for large-scale building power demand prediction by Ye, Yunyang, Strong, Matthew, Lou, Yingli, Faulkner, Cary A., Zuo, Wangda, Upadhyaya, Satish

“…•Develop a new strategy to evaluate GAN accuracy for building power demand prediction.•Identify and evaluate five GANs for predicting large-scale building…”
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Simulation-based assessment of ASHRAE Guideline 36, considering energy performance, indoor air quality, and control stability by Faulkner, Cary A., Lutes, Robert, Huang, Sen, Zuo, Wangda, Vrabie, Draguna

“…This study assesses American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Guideline 36 (G36) with a typical medium office building…”
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Comprehensive analysis of model parameter uncertainty influence on evaluation of HVAC operation to mitigate indoor virus: A case study for an office building in a cold and dry climate by Faulkner, Cary A., Castellini, John E., Zuo, Wangda, Sohn, Michael D.

“…Simulation-based studies of HVAC operation to mitigate indoor virus have been conducted to understand tradeoffs between indoor air quality (IAQ) and energy…”
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Simulation-based assessment of ASHRAE Guideline 36, considering energy performance, indoor air quality, and control stability by Faulkner, Cary A., Lutes, Robert, Huang, Sen, Zuo, Wangda, Vrabie, Draguna

“…This study assesses American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Guideline 36 (G36) with a typical medium office building…”
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Comparison of effectiveness and energy use of airborne pathogen mitigation measures to meet clean air targets in a prototypical office building by Faulkner, Cary A., Salsbury, Timothy I., Abboushi, Belal, Mouchref, Cerrina, Singer, Brett C., Sohn, Michael D., Arnold, Gabe

“…Organizations such as ASHRAE and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have proposed guidelines for controlling infectious aerosols in…”
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Investigation of HVAC operation strategies for office buildings during COVID-19 pandemic by Faulkner, Cary A., Castellini, Jr., John E., Zuo, Wangda, Lorenzetti, David M., Sohn, Michael D.

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Comparison of effectiveness and energy use of airborne pathogen mitigation measures to meet clean air targets in a prototypical office building by Faulkner, Cary A., Salsbury, Timothy I., Abboushi, Belal K., Mouchref, Cerrina N., Singer, Brett C., Sohn, Michael D., Arnold, Gabriel E.

“…Organizations such as ASHRAE and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have proposed guidelines for controlling infectious aerosols in…”
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Tradeoffs among indoor air quality, financial costs, and CO 2 emissions for HVAC operation strategies to mitigate indoor virus in U.S. office buildings by Faulkner, Cary A, Castellini, Jr, John E, Lou, Yingli, Zuo, Wangda, Lorenzetti, David M, Sohn, Michael D

“…Adapting building operation during the COVID-19 pandemic to improve indoor air quality (IAQ) while ensuring sustainable solutions in terms of costs and CO…”
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Tradeoffs among indoor air quality, financial costs, and CO2 emissions for HVAC operation strategies to mitigate indoor virus in U.S. office buildings by Faulkner, Cary A., Castellini, Jr., John E., Lou, Yingli, Zuo, Wangda, Lorenzetti, David M., Sohn, Michael D.

“…Adapting building operation during the COVID-19 pandemic to improve indoor air quality (IAQ) while ensuring sustainable solutions in terms of costs and CO2…”
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System modeling for grid-interactive efficient building applications by Ye, Yunyang, Faulkner, Cary A., Xu, Rong, Huang, Sen, Liu, Yuan, Vrabie, Draguna L., Zhang, Jian, Zuo, Wangda

“…Despite the abundance of research applications of system modeling in grid-interactive efficient buildings (GEBs), the transfer of those applications to…”
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Development of near-optimal advanced control sequences for chiller plants with water-side economizers in U.S. Climates (ASHRAE RP-1661) by Faulkner, Cary A., Ho, Julia, Shi, Chengnan, Fan, Chengliang, Ildiri, Nasim, Zuo, Wangda

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