A Procedural Approach for Thermal Visualization on Buildings

Muñoz, David; Besuievsky, Gonzalo; Patow, Gustavo A.

A Procedural Approach for Thermal Visualization on Buildings

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2018

Authors

Muñoz, David
Besuievsky, Gonzalo
Patow, Gustavo A.

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

Thermal behaviour analysis on buildings is an important goal for all tasks involving energy flow simulation in urban environments. One of the most widely used simplified thermal models is based on an electrical analogy, where nodes are set to simulate and solve a circuit network. In this paper we propose a procedural approach for automatically locate the nodes of the circuit, according to the building structure. We provide a conceptual technique to efficiently visualize thermal variations over time in buildings. We show that we can simulate and visually represent the variations of the interior temperatures of a building over a period of time. We believe that the technique could be helpful for rapid analysis for changing building parameters, such as materials, dimensions or number of floors.

        @inproceedings{10.2312:ceig.20181164
,
booktitle = {Spanish Computer Graphics Conference (CEIG)
},
editor = {García-Fernández, Ignacio and Ureña, Carlos
},
title = {{A Procedural Approach for Thermal Visualization on Buildings
}},
author = {Muñoz, David and 
Besuievsky, Gonzalo and 
Patow, Gustavo A.
},
year = {2018
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-067-3
},
DOI = {10.2312/ceig.20181164
}
}