Search Results - "Fontanini, Anthony D."

Decarbonization pathways for the residential sector in the United States by Berrill, Peter, Wilson, Eric J. H., Reyna, Janet L., Fontanini, Anthony D., Hertwich, Edgar G.

“…Residential GHG emissions in the United States are driven in part by a housing stock where onsite fossil combustion is common, home sizes are large by…”
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Constructing Markov matrices for real-time transient contaminant transport analysis for indoor environments by Fontanini, Anthony D., Vaidya, Umesh, Ganapathysubramanian, Baskar

“…Predicting the movement of contaminants in the indoor environment has applications in tracking airborne infectious disease, ventilation of gaseous…”
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Contaminant transport at large Courant numbers using Markov matrices by Fontanini, Anthony D., Vaidya, Umesh, Passalacqua, Alberto, Ganapathysubramanian, Baskar

“…Volatile organic compounds, particulate matter, airborne infectious disease, and harmful chemical or biological agents are examples of gaseous and particulate…”
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A methodology for optimal placement of sensors in enclosed environments: A dynamical systems approach by Fontanini, Anthony D., Vaidya, Umesh, Ganapathysubramanian, Baskar

“…Air quality has been an important issue in public health for many years. Sensing the level and distributions of impurities help in the control of building…”
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The ASHRAE Great Energy Predictor III competition: Overview and results by Miller, Clayton, Arjunan, Pandarasamy, Kathirgamanathan, Anjukan, Fu, Chun, Roth, Jonathan, Park, June Young, Balbach, Chris, Gowri, Krishnan, Nagy, Zoltan, Fontanini, Anthony D., Haberl, Jeff

“…In late 2019, ASHRAE hosted the Great Energy Predictor III (GEPIII) machine learning competition on the Kaggle platform. This launch marked the third energy…”
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Author Correction: Decarbonization pathways for the residential sector in the United States by Berrill, Peter, Wilson, Eric J. H., Reyna, Janet L., Fontanini, Anthony D., Hertwich, Edgar G.

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Thermal performance analysis of residential attics containing high performance aerogel-based radiant barriers by Kosny, Jan, Fontanini, Anthony D., Shukla, Nitin, Fallahi, Ali, Watts, Alliston, Trifu, Roxana, Ganapathysubramanian, Baskar

“…•The R-value of an aerogel-based radiant barrier is characterized in laboratory conditions.•Side-by-side field test is used to compare the performance of the…”
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Quantifying mechanical ventilation performance: The connection between transport equations and Markov matrices by Fontanini, Anthony D., Vaidya, Umesh, Passalacqua, Alberto, Ganapathysubramanian, Baskar

“…Most people spend approximately 90% of their lives indoors. Thus, designing effective ventilation systems is essential to mitigating problems with indoor air…”
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Surrogate modeling approach towards coupling computational fluid dynamics and energy simulations for analysis and design of energy efficient attics by Sharma, Himanshu, Fontanini, Anthony D., Cetin, Kristen S., Kośny, Jan, Ganapathysubramanian, Baskar

“…Attic specific energy modeling tools are used by engineers and researchers to evaluate the impact of different design features, products, and materials systems…”
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Exploring future climate trends on the thermal performance of attics: Part 1 – Standard roofs by Fontanini, Anthony D., Pr’Out, Kahntinetta M., Kosny, Jan, Ganapathysubramanian, Baskar

“…•Analysis is performed of implications of future climate trends on residential attic spaces.•Changes in the U-values for attic floors are quantified based on…”
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Predicting the performance of radiant technologies in attics: Reducing the discrepancies between attic specific and whole-building energy models by Fontanini, Anthony D., Castro Aguilar, Jose L., Mitchell, Matt S., Kosny, Jan, Merket, Noel, DeGraw, Jason W., Lee, Edwin

“…•The potential reasons for the poor performance predictions of radiant technologies in EnergyPlus are identified.•Intermodel comparison between FATM, AtticSIM,…”
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Development and verification of the Fraunhofer attic thermal model by Fontanini, Anthony D., Kosny, Jan, Shukla, Nitin, Fallahi, Ali, Ganapathysubramanian, Baskar

“…Attic spaces are one of the most dynamic components in the building envelope. Engineers, designers, architects, and contractors can utilize different attic…”
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Achieving equitable space heating electrification: A case study of Los Angeles by Sandoval, Noah, Harris, Chioke, Reyna, Janet L., Fontanini, Anthony D., Liu, Lixi, Stenger, Katelyn, White, Philip R., Landis, Amy E.

“…•A variable discount rate is used in the marginal net present value calculations.•Existing space heating and cooling equipment impact resident upgrade…”
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A Data-Driven BIRCH Clustering Method for Extracting Typical Load Profiles for Big Data by Fontanini, Anthony D., Abreu, Joana

“…In typical load shape analysis, many different clustering methods have been used to segment customers, interpret behavior and inform marketing reach out…”
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Analyzing the characteristics of contaminant transport using the Perron-Frobenius operator in indoor building environments by Fontanini, Anthony D

“…People in the developed world spend the majority of their lives indoors. While inside, people can be exposed to many different gaseous and particulate…”
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Transfer Operator Theoretic Framework for Monitoring Building Indoor Environment in Uncertain Operating Conditions by Sharma, Himanshu, Fontanini, Anthony D., Vaidya, Umesh, Ganapathysubramanian, Baskar

“…Dynamical system-based linear transfer Perron-Frobenius (P-F) operator framework is developed to address analysis and design problems in the building system…”
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Transfer Operator Theoretic Framework for Monitoring Building Indoor Environment in Uncertain Operating Conditions by Sharma, Himanshu, Fontanini, Anthony D, Vaidya, Umesh, Ganapathysubramanian, Baskar

“…Dynamical system-based linear transfer Perron- Frobenius (P-F) operator framework is developed to address analysis and design problems in the building system…”
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