Prof. Behzad Najafi

Argomenti del programma: The first part of the course is dedicated to introducing the principles of heat transfer and thermodynamics, which facilitates understanding the phenomena that govern the energy and environmental performance of buildings. These fundamentals are then specifically utilized to calculate the heat transfer through walls and windows and assess the impact of the corresponding design choices.

Argomenti del programma: 1. Theoretical Concepts 1.1 Applications of machine learning-based models for improving the energy efficiency and flexibility of thermal systems, with a particular focus on HVAC systems. 1.2 Concepts behind the different steps of data-driven simulation: physics-inspired data exploration and feature generation; data splitting (training, validation, and test sets) and cross-validation; batch and sliding window…

Argomenti del programma: Topic 1: Fundamentals of building physics In this part of the course, after a brief review of heat transfer fundamentals related to building physics, the students will then learn about the standard simplifications for calculating the heat transfer through the walls and windows and how to use the corresponding tables.