A computational environment for building enclosure systems design: and control support via dynamic simulation-assisted optimization

By Hamidreza Shirdel

In the last decades, a number of developments have made global optimization of large multi-dimensional design option spaces possible. Such developments include the increase in computing power, emergence of sophisticated optimization algorithms, and new techniques for the derivation of computationally highly efficient meta-models. Along with their promise, such developments also involve a number of potential drawbacks. For one thing, meta-models occasionally fail to capture the behaviour of "non-conventional" and complex designs. Another critical problem pertains to the potentially opaque nature of large-scale global optimization exercises, which make them less amenable to provision of intuitively graspable support in a naturally iterative design process. In this context, this research explores the potential of a novel approach toward iterative global optimization of locally optimized attribute clusters of building design solutions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6202323051
• ISBN13: 9786202323055
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Sudwestdeutscher Verlag Fur Hochschulschrifte
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"