| SES # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
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| Lab 1: Design of Passive-Solar Houses | ||
| 1 | Course Introduction Introduction to Modeling Thermal Systems Electrical-circuit Analogies |
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| 2 | Thermal-mass Measurements (Mr. Potato Head), Demonstration of Thermal-dynamics Spreadsheet Program Design and Construction of Passive-Solar Test House |
Assignment 1 due |
| 3 | Modeling Thermal Dynamics Solar Heat Gain through Windows |
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| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | Prediction of Temperatures inside Test Houses Downloading Temperature Data Comparison of Prediction and Measurement Modifying Test Houses Reinstalling Temperature Loggers |
Assignment 3 due |
| 6 | Solar Heat Gain through Walls and Roofs Comparison of Walls and Windows |
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| 7 | 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 | ||
| 8 | Fundamentals of Natural Ventilation: Hydrostatic Equation, Ideal Gas Law, Bernoulli's Equation, Orifice Equation | |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | Fundamentals of Natural Ventilation (cont.) Buoyancy and Wind-driven Airflows |
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| 11 | Airflow Measurements with Hot-wire Anemometer | Lab report 1 due Assignment 6 due |
| 12 | 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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| 13 | Airflow Simulation Using CONTAMW V2.0 | Assignment 7 due |
| 14 | Scaling Relationships Reynolds Number Modeling Airflows and Temperatures |
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| 15 | Construction and Test of a Model for Convective Cooling of Thermal Mass Guidelines for Lab Report 2 |
Assignment 8 due |
| Lab 3: Daylighting | ||
| 16 | Lighting Fundamentals Lighting Measurements Luminance and Illuminance Calculations Luminous Efficacy of Lamps |
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| 17 | Introduction to Gujarati Houses Construction of Base-case House |
Assignment 9 due |
| 18 | Inverse Square Law and Applications Zonal-cavity Method for Lighting Design |
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| 19 | Daylighting Measurements in Base-case House | Lab report 2 due Assignment 10 due |
| 20 | Daylighting Fundamentals Lumen and Daylight Factor Methods Calculation of Benefit of Roof Openings Modification of Models and Second-round Tests |
Assignment 11 due |
| 21 | Lighting Simulation with Lightscape | |
| 22 | Daylighting Simulation in Gujarati Houses Comparison of Predicted and Measured Lighting Levels Guidelines for Lab Report 3 |
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| 23 | Design of Sustainable Housing for Afghanistan | Assignment 12 due |
| 24 | Calculations and Simulations in Support of the Design of Sustainable Housing | |
| 25 | Integration of Energy, Airflow and Lighting | |
| 26 | Project Presentations | Lab report 3 due |
