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A Comparison of Various Bottom-Up Urban Energy Simulation Methods Using a Case Study in Hangzhou, China

Li, Y; Wang, C; Zhu, S; Yang, J; Wei, S; Zhang, X; Shi, X; (2020) A Comparison of Various Bottom-Up Urban Energy Simulation Methods Using a Case Study in Hangzhou, China. Energies , 13 (18) , Article 4781. 10.3390/en13184781. Green open access

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Abstract

Urban energy simulation can provide valuable information to urban planning, urban energy management, and urban emission reduction. Therefore, urban energy simulation has become an active research discipline. Various urban energy simulation methods and techniques have been developed and applied to cities on different scales. A review is conducted to categorize these methods and techniques and to analyze their pros and cons. Several representative methods and techniques are compared for their data inputs, suitable scales, accuracy, and computing speeds. Hangzhou South Railway Station area, which contains 522 buildings, is used as the case to evaluate the effectiveness and challenges of different urban energy simulation methods.

Type: Article
Title: A Comparison of Various Bottom-Up Urban Energy Simulation Methods Using a Case Study in Hangzhou, China
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.3390/en13184781
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.3390/en13184781
Language: English
Additional information: © 2020 by the Authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: urban energy simulation method; bottom-up approach; multi-zone models
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10110305
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