Citation

We'd appreciate if you cite this B&E journal paper using citation below:

@article{RN13245,
   author = {Wang, Liping and Wu, Lichen and Norford, Leslie Keith and Aliabadi, Amir A. and Lee, Edwin},
   title = {The interactive indoor-outdoor building energy modeling for enhancing the predictions of urban microclimates and building energy demands},
   journal = {Building and Environment},
   volume = {248},
   pages = {111059},
   ISSN = {0360-1323},
   DOI = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2023.111059},
   url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360132323010867},
   year = {2024},
   type = {Journal Article}
}

Procedures to replicate the research paper results

1. The original VCWGv2.0.0 is available at VCWGv2.0.0
2. Install EnergyPlus at sys.path.insert(0, 'C:/EnergyPlusV22-1-0') or sys.path.insert(0, '/usr/local/EnergyPlus-22-1-0/')
3. Two-way coupling is available at High Rise Office Two-way, Med Office Two-way. (You may find some files from original VCWGv2.0.0 have been adopted to work with EnergyPlus, such as this line; important files: _0_main_epTimestepHandlers.py and _1_parent_coordination.py)
4. One-way coupling is available at High Rise Office One-way, Med Office One-way. (You may find some files from original VCWGv2.0.0 have been adopted. Remember one-way coupling urban weather calculation is directly modified from two-way couplings, so they are closer to two-way coupling, not the origianl VCWGv2.0.0, for example this line. This is because two-way couplings code development was gotten more efforts and developed earlier than one-way coupling, especially when conduct the sensitivity analysis, multiple cases running together for time efficiency purposes using multiprocessing.)
5. Validation: All the processed rural and urban weather measurements are available at this repo-branch, for original datasets BUBBLE, CAPITOUL,VANCUVER
6. The entire paper code and dataset is fully hosted on repos (ranked by time descending order) (In case you want to find some files/settings, you need to explore among all the branches of the following repos):
   • VCWG-EP-Scalar-Vector
   • VCWG-EP-Experiments
   • Urban climate and Who
7. You might find this repo insightful about the rural and weather files, UWG/VCWG settings at UWG-Matlab
8. Please email me to [email protected] if you have any questions or need further assistance.