| Lab 1: Design of Passive-Solar Houses |
| 1 | Course Introduction
Introduction to Modeling Thermal Systems
Electrical-circuit Analogies | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 13 | Airflow Simulation Using CONTAMW V2.0 | Assignment 7 due |
| 14 | Scaling Relationships
Reynolds Number
Modeling Airflows and Temperatures | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |