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2000

Laine, Tuomas, Risto Kosonen, Kim Hagström, Panu Mustakallio, De-Wei Yin, Philip Haves, and Qingyan Chen."Better IAQ Through Integrating Design Tools For The HVAC Industry."Healthy Buildings 2000 (2000).

Haves, Philip, and Satkartar T. Khalsa."Model-based Performance Monitoring: Review of Diagnostic Methods and Chiller Case Study."ACEEE Summer School (2000).

Mitchell, Robin, Christian Kohler, Dariush K. Arasteh, Elizabeth U. Finlayson, Charlie Huizenga, Dragan C. Curcija, and John Carmody."THERM 2.1 NFRC Simulation Manual." (2000) 260.

Hong, Tianzhen, Siaw K. Chou, and T.Y. Bong."Building simulation: an overview of development and information sources."Building and Environment 35.4 (2000) 347-361. DOI

Piette, Mary Ann, Satkartar T. Khalsa, and Philip Haves."Use of an Information Monitoring and Diagnostic System for Commissioning and Ongoing Operations."8th National Conference on Building Commissioning PECI (2000).

Lamont, Alan, Jonathan E. Sinton, and Yuan Gao."End-Use Energy Modeling for China’s 10th Five-Year Plan." (2000).

Rees, Simon J., Jeffrey D. Spitler, Michael J. Holmes, and Philip Haves."Comparison of Peak Load Predictions and Treatment of Solar Gains in the Admittance and Heat Balance Load Calculation Procedures."Building Services Engineering Research & Technology 21.2 (2000). DOI

Rees, Simon J., Jeffrey D. Spitler, Morris G. Davies, and Philip Haves."Qualitative Comparison of North American and U.K. Cooling Load Calculation Procedures."International Journal of Heating, Ventilating, Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Research 6.1 (2000) 75-99. DOI

Klems, Joseph H.."Solar Heat Gain Through Fenestrations Containing Shading: Procedures for Estimating Performace from Minimal Data." (2000).

1999

Rees, Simon J., and Philip Haves."A Nodal Model for Displacement Ventilation and Chilled Ceiling Systems in Office Spaces."Building Simulation ’99 (1999).

Sowell, Edward F., and Philip Haves."Numerical Performance of a Graph-Theoretic HVAC Simulation Program."Building Simulation ’99 (1999).

Huizenga, Charlie, Dariush K. Arasteh, Elizabeth U. Finlayson, Robin Mitchell, Brent T. Griffith, and Dragan C. Curcija."THERM 2.0: A Building Component Model for Steady-State Two-Dimensional Heat Transfer."Building Simulation 99, International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) (1999).

Mitchell, Robin, Yu Joe Huang, Dariush K. Arasteh, Robert Sullivan, and Santosh Phillip."RESFEN 3.1: A PC Program for Calculating the Heating and Cooling Energy Use of Windows in Residential Buildings." (1999).

Hong, Tianzhen, Siaw K. Chou, and T.Y. Bong."A design day for building load and energy estimation."Building and Environment 34.4 (1999) 469-477. DOI

Huang, Yu Joe, Robin Mitchell, Dariush K. Arasteh, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Residential Fenestration Performance Analysis Using RESFEN 3.1."Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings VII (1999).

Carroll, William L.."Daylighting Simulation: Methods, Algorithms, and Resources." (1999).

1998

Huizenga, Charlie, Dariush K. Arasteh, Elizabeth U. Finlayson, Robin Mitchell, and Brent T. Griffith."Teaching Students about Two-Dimensional Heat Transfer Effects in Buildings, Building Components, Equipment, and Appliances Using THERM 2.0."ASHRAE Transactions 105, Part 1 (1998).

Haves, Philip, and Edward F. Sowell."Component-Based and Equation-Based Solvers for HVAC Simulation: a Comparison of HVACSIM+ and SPARK."System Simulation in Buildings '98 (1998).

Griffith, Brent T., Daniel Turler, Howdy Goudey, and Dariush K. Arasteh."Experimental Techniques for Measuring Temperature and Velocity Fields to Improve the Use and Validation of Building Heat Transfer Models."Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings VII (1998).

Arasteh, Dariush K., Elizabeth U. Finlayson, Yu Joe Huang, Charlie Huizenga, Robin Mitchell, and Michael D. Rubin."State-of-the-Art Software for Window Energy-Efficiency Rating and Labeling."ACEEE 1998 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1998).

Hong, Tianzhen, and Yi Jiang."Outdoor synthetic temperature for the calculation of space heating load."Energy and Buildings 28.3 (1998) 269-277. DOI

Haves, Philip, and Edward F. Sowell."The application of Problem Reduction Techniques Based on Graph Theory to the Simulation of Non-Linear Continuous Systems."EUROSIM’98 (1998) pp. 203-207.

Spitler, Jeffrey D., Simon J. Rees, and Philip Haves."Comparison of North American and U.K. Cooling Load Calculation Procedures - Methodology."ASHRAE Transactions 104.2 (1998) 47-61.

Rees, Simon J., Jeffrey D. Spitler, and Philip Haves."Comparison of North American and U.K. Cooling Load Calculation Procedures - Results."ASHRAE Transactions 104.2 (1998) 36-46.

Haves, Philip, Leslie K. Norford, and Mark DeSimone."A Standard Simulation Testbed for the Evaluation of Control Algorithms & Strategies."ASHRAE Transactions 104.Pt. 1A (1998).