This course introduces students to heat and mass transfer processes in buildings and to multizonal methods applied to the energy and environmental analysis of built environments, such as in the software Domus, EnergyPlus, and Contam. Students will understand the interactions between indoor spaces, the building envelope, and outdoor conditions, including convection on internal walls and façades, longwave and shortwave radiation, and sources of heat, moisture, and air pollutants. The course also covers HVAC systems, which account for a significant portion of building energy consumption for cooling and heating. Finally, students will apply the numerical methods to conduct building performance analyses for test cases and real scenarios. Throughout the course, they will perform numerical experiments, participate in in-class activities, and develop a final project in which they select an application, model it using the proposed tools, and analyze the results.
Questions about the course?
Prof Marcos Batistella Lopes – [email protected]
