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Energy Technologies Area (ETA) researchers are continually building on the strong scientific foundation we have developed over the past 50 years. We address the world’s most pressing climate challenges by bringing to market energy-efficient innovations across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of developing better batteries for electric vehicles; improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-interactive, efficient buildings; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide for renewable technologies like wind and solar.
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The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) is unique in translating fundamental scientific discoveries into scalable technology adoption. Our approach combines an understanding of the marketplace and the role of state and federal regulation and policies. ETA's research drives real-world, practical results that affect and improve the everyday lives of Americans and those across the globe. Saving energy and battling the Climate Crisis are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by technoeconomic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

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

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, 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.

Finlayson, Elizabeth U, Robin Mitchell, Dariush K Arasteh, Charlie Huizenga, and Dragan C Curcija."THERM 2.0: a PC Program for Analyzing Two-Dimensional Heat Transfer through Building products." (1998).

Sullivan, Robert, and Frederick C Winkelmann."Validation studies of the DOE-2 Building Energy Simulation Program. Final Report." (1998).

1997

Klems, Joseph H."Greenhouse Window U-Factors Under Field Conditions."ASHRAE Transactions 104, Part 1 (1997).

Griffith, Brent T, Elizabeth U Finlayson, Mehry Yazdanian, and Dariush K Arasteh."The Significance of Bolts in the Thermal Performance of Curtain-Wall Frames for Glazed Façades."ASHRAE Transactions 104, Part 1 (1997).

Huang, Yu Joe, Robert Sullivan, Dariush K Arasteh, and Robin Mitchell."RESFEN 3.0: A PC Program for Calculating the Heating and Cooling Energy Use of Windows in Residential Buildings." (1997) 38.

Haves, Philip."Fault Modelling in Component-based HVAC Simulation."Building Simulation '97 (1997).

Buswell, Richard A, Philip Haves, and Tim I Salsbury."A Model-Based Approach to the Commissioning of HVAC Systems."CLIMA 2000 (1997).

Papamichael, Konstantinos M, John LaPorta, and Hannah L Chauvet."Building Design Advisor: Automated Integration of Multiple Simulation Tools."Automation in Construction 6.4 (1997) 341-352. DOI

Hong, Tianzhen, and Yi Jiang."A new multizone model for simulation of building thermal performance."Building and Environment 32.2 (1997) 123-128. DOI