Energetic building and neighborhood modeling
· Neighborhood, building and system simulation
· Regenerative and decentralized energy systems
· Communication of building technology (operability/interaction)
· Energy supply infrastructure
· Control issues (load management, grid efficiency)
· Microclimate in urban districts
Indoor climate - User - Interactions
· Thermal comfort
· Indoor air quality
· Interaction user - building - technical building equipment
· Incentive systems for users (e.g. social gaming)
· Machine learning in the context of user behavior and operational management
· Health-relevant ventilation methods
Building physics simulations at component level
· Heat and mass transfer models
· Modeling and simulation of material systems and damage processes
· Active facades
· Simulation of acoustic material and component properties
· Vibration analyses/ modal analyses
BIM-based planning tools and integration approaches
· Digital twins at building and neighborhood level and their significance for planning, execution and operation
· Data models and standards in the context of simulation
· BIM-based simulation and calculation tools
· Automated quality control of models
· Model and data visualization based on virtual and augmented reality
· Interfaces and interoperability at the level of building and city information models
Modeling and simulation in the life cycle of buildings and neighborhoods
· Holistic accounting methods
· Algorithms for computer-aided decision and verification methods
· Model-based control and operation optimization
· Hardware-in-the-loop simulation
Numerical solution methods, optimization and implementation
· Application of numerical methods in building and district simulation, fluid mechanics, mass, moisture and heat transfer
· Libraries and implementations for parallelization and optimization
· Dynamic coupling of simulation methods (co-simulation, model exchange)
· Interdisciplinary optimization approaches in simulation
Monitoring of buildings and neighborhoods
· Setup and commissioning of energy monitoring projects (IoT)
· Cloud-based data management and analysis
· Strategies for operational optimization
· Simulation vs. measured data
Acoustic simulations in the building sector
· Room acoustic simulations (speech intelligibility, hearing quality)
· Calculation of sound propagation in rooms (sound reflections and absorption)
· Simulation of vibration propagation in the building structure (solid buildings, lightweight buildings, residential buildings, non-residential buildings)
· Simulation of sound propagation in outdoor spaces (e.g. low-frequency sound from wind turbines)
· Simulation of road noise
Product data and product databases
· Data structures, formats, standards for databases
· Availability, quality of data
· Data acquisition, data archiving and processing
· Legal aspects of testability, verifiability and reproducibility of computational data and simulation results
Validation scenarios and quality assurance
· Sensor networks for model validation on component, building and neighborhood level
· Parameterization, calibration and quality control of models
· Reference solutions for norms and standards
· Methods of representation and visualization
· Data maintenance and sustainable archiving of solutions
Innovative measurement methods - validation and application
· Indoor climatic parameters
· Acquisition and visualization of (room) air flows
· Data acquisition using UAVs (drones)
· Acquisition of acoustic parameters (airborne and structure-borne sound)
Teaching, education and training in the field of simulation
Knowledge transfer for simulation practice / Selected practical examples