| Lab 1: Design of Passive-Solar Houses |
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Course Introduction
Introduction to Modeling Thermal Systems
Electrical-circuit Analogies |
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Thermal-mass Measurements (Mr. Potato Head), Demonstration of Thermal-dynamics Spreadsheet Program
Design and Construction of Passive-Solar Test House |
Assignment 1 due |
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Modeling Thermal Dynamics
Solar Heat Gain through Windows |
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Review of Thermal Time Constant Estimates from Mr. Potato Head
Completion of Construction of Test Houses
Demonstration of Temperature Loggers
Launching of Loggers and Deploying of Test Houses |
Assignment 2 due |
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Prediction of Temperatures inside Test Houses
Downloading Temperature Data
Comparison of Prediction and Measurement
Modifying Test Houses
Reinstalling Temperature Loggers |
Assignment 3 due
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Solar Heat Gain through Walls and Roofs
Comparison of Walls and Windows |
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Heat Capacity of Air inside a House
Multi-node Models
Frequency Analysis
MATLAB® Modeling of Complex Thermal Models
Downloading Temperature Data
Modifying Houses and Reinstalling Temperature Loggers
Guidelines for Lab Report 1 |
Assignment 4 due |
| Lab 2: Natural Ventilation |
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Fundamentals of Natural Ventilation: Hydrostatic Equation, Ideal Gas Law, Bernoulli's Equation, Orifice Equation |
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Presentations of Results from Lab 1
Introduction to Urban Housing in China
Construction of Model Apartment Balconies (Indoor-outdoor Transition Spaces) for Wind-driven Airflow Studies or Model Office and Atrium for Buoyancy-driven Airflow Studies |
Assignment 5 due
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Fundamentals of Natural Ventilation (cont.)
Buoyancy and Wind-driven Airflows |
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Airflow Measurements with Hot-wire Anemometer |
Lab report 1 due
Assignment 6 due |
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Combined Buoyancy-driven and Wind-driven Flows
Single-sided Ventilation
Templates for Internal Distribution of Air
Simulation Tool for Estimating Wind-driven and Buoyancy Driven Airflows |
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Airflow Simulation Using CONTAMW V2.0 |
Assignment 7 due |
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Scaling Relationships
Reynolds Number
Modeling Airflows and Temperatures |
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Construction and Test of a Model for Convective Cooling of Thermal Mass
Guidelines for Lab Report 2 |
Assignment 8 due |
| Lab 3: Daylighting |
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Lighting Fundamentals
Lighting Measurements
Luminance and Illuminance Calculations
Luminous Efficacy of Lamps |
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Introduction to Gujarati Houses
Construction of Base-case House |
Assignment 9 due |
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Inverse Square Law and Applications
Zonal-cavity Method for Lighting Design |
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Daylighting Measurements in Base-case House |
Lab report 2 due
Assignment 10 due |
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Daylighting Fundamentals
Lumen and Daylight Factor Methods
Calculation of Benefit of Roof Openings
Modification of Models and Second-round Tests |
Assignment 11 due |
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Lighting Simulation with Lightscape |
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Daylighting Simulation in Gujarati Houses
Comparison of Predicted and Measured Lighting Levels
Guidelines for Lab Report 3 |
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Design of Sustainable Housing for Afghanistan |
Assignment 12 due |
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Calculations and Simulations in Support of the Design of Sustainable Housing |
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Integration of Energy, Airflow and Lighting |
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Project Presentations |
Lab report 3 due |