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Mathematical Modeling of buildings towards the design strategy of the
Green buildings with MATLAB
B.Vikram Anand
1
, Asit Kumar Mohanty
2
, Soumya Ranjan Mishra
3
, Nara Narayan Das
4
Satya Gopal Mishra
5
Subham Sial
6
1
Assistnat Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, GIET, Gunupur, Orissa, INDIA
3,4,5,6
Final Year UG student, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, GIET, Gunupur, Orissa, INDIA
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Abstract - Maintaining of the indoor climate conditions so
that they keep compatible with the occupants comfort is a key
issue for control of heating, ventilation along with air
conditioning systems (HVAC systems). Computer modelling
offer a virtual environment similar to real climatic conditions
indoors and outdoors. It aims basically to devise solutions for
control of indoor climatic conditions. This process requires
understanding of these environments from physical and
mathematical perspective, so that physical processes of these
environments can be represented using relationships and
equations which can reflect the influence of different
environmental parameters. Here different physical models
associated in the construction of building are modelled and a
new control strategy is developed to limit the effect of
temperature rise using MATLAB/SIMULINK and the output
results are shown which results in better performance.
Key Words: HVAC system, mathematical modeling,
temperature, control.
1. INTRODUCTION
It is must to have a better knowledge about the heat,
air and moisture balance of the whole building and how the
indoor environment is affected due to it. And it in turn
impacts the thermal comfort of the occupants which
invariably reduces pollution and energy consumption. There
is no such tool or computer application in existence which
covers these issues. Hence, integrated mathematical models
which cover every aspects of building design are required.
Modeling is defined as obtaining the mathematical equations
which shows the dynamic response of the physical
processes. It is basically derived from the known laws. The
physical system, once its modeling is completed [1]; it can be
simulated by a particular software tool. It just takes few
seconds to simulate the process, as compared to the real
system as it takes hours. It helps in saving a great deal of
money and we can correct the errors before the real system
is implemented. For predicting the energy being consumed
and what are the indoor climate parameters, some popular
methods can be used[2][3]. The results which are obtained
from these methods are used to design the buildings, which
meets every aspect of the energy consumption and indoor
climate. The principles of energy simulation are to determine
the energy flow across the building. Energy flow is found out
in terms of heat loss through the building envelopes with
also the ventilation system and infiltration. It is quite evident
that the actual indoor temperature is the representation of
complex interaction between losses and gains. The variables
used vary continuously as outdoor temperature, solar heat
gain and internal heat gain, vary with time [4].
All the parameters which directly or indirectly affect the
energy balance must be included in the model. This in term
says that every wall, windows, ventilation system and all the
components sub-model must be designed. With so many
sub-models being designed come so many factors, which
further increase the complexity of the whole model. And
with many factors, a detailed result will be obtained. But we
may have problems in running it. Accuracy and complexity
must be balanced in such way that, we get higher accuracy
with less complexity.
The mathematical model is again run in various
simulation processes. After the initial implementation of the
model, validation of the model is important as to check
whether the results obtained are near to real parameters.
There is a big advantage of simulation, as we can vary the
parameters and can further improve the design of the
building [5]. There is only one software that has advanced
capabilities for simulation of indoor thermal process, and it
is MATLAB.SIMULINK is a software package which is
basically used for modeling, simulating and analyzing
dynamical systems. Using ordinary differential equations,
the indoor environment modeling can be implemented in
SIMULINK.
Here in this work a closed room is considered, where an
external wall and windows separate it from the outdoors,
internal partitions divide it from the adjoining rooms, and
from above by a ceiling and a floor slab at below and it is
shown below in figure 1.