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Sensitivity Analysis Of Common Input Parameters In Tools For Modeling Energy In Homes, Sheikh Tijan Tabban, Nelson Fumo

Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Energy models of buildings can be developed and used for analysis of energy consumption. A model offers the opportunity to simulate a building under specific conditions for analysis of energy efficiency measures or optimum design. Due to the great amount of information needed to develop an energy model of a building, the number of inputs can be reduced by making variable the most relevant input parameters and making the others to take common or standard values. In this study, an analysis of input parameters required by computational tools to estimate energy consumption in homes was done in two stages. In …