Implementation of an interface between a CFD energy analysis and an IFC building product model

Author

Lydon, G.P. ; Keane, M.M. ; Ingham, D.B.

Author_Institution

Centre for Comput. Fluid Dynamics, Leeds Univ., UK

fYear

2005

fDate

6-8 July 2005

Firstpage

277

Lastpage

286

Abstract

The paper presents an implementation of a user interface for the capture and refinement of CFD data for building energy analysis (CaRCA) that allows interaction with building data in a context and language familiar to the CFD engineer. This is made possible by the use of an International Standards Organisation - standard for the exchange of product model data (ISO-STEP) compliant building product model (BPM). The BPM used is the International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI) developed industry foundation classes (IFC) schema. This allows early introduction of the CFD engineer to the building lifecycle and a method for recorded validation of CFD predictions.

Keywords

ISO standards; building; computational fluid dynamics; graphical user interfaces; open systems; structural engineering computing; CFD energy analysis; IFC building product model; International Alliance for Interoperability; International Standards Organisation; building energy analysis; industry foundation classes; product model data exchange standard; user interface; Buildings; Computational fluid dynamics; Computational modeling; Data engineering; Educational institutions; Energy capture; Energy consumption; Power engineering and energy; Predictive models; User interfaces; Building Product Models; CFD; IFC;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Visualisation, 2005. Proceedings. Ninth International Conference on

ISSN

1550-6037

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2397-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IV.2005.60

Filename

1509090