Laurent Georges
Background and activities
Main teaching activities: Building Performance Simulation (TBA4166, EP8301) and Heat Pumps for Heating and Cooling of Buildings (TEP4260).
Research areas: Building Performance Simulation (BPS), heating, cooling and ventilation systems (HVAC), heat pump systems, zero energy and zero emission buildings (ZEB), energy flexible buildings and control, physical-based and data-driven modelling of buildings, computational fluid dynamics (CFD).
Research activities and projects:
Leader of the work package 3, "responsive and energy efficient buildings", in the Norwegian research centre on Zero Emission Neighbourhoods in Smart Cities, ZEN (www.fmezen.no).
Integration of heating, cooling and ventilation systems in buildings
- HVAC for renovation of single-family houses (OPPTRE project).
- Design and integration of heat pump systems (ChiNoZEN project).
- Building integration of wood stoves (SusWoodStoves project).
Energy flexibility of buildings and control
- Energy flexible operation of heat pump systems.
- Data-driven modelling and Model Predictive Control of buildings (Norwegian research centre on Zero Emission Neighbourhoods in Smart Cities, ZEN).
Other modelling developments
- High-resolution CFD for airflows inside buildings.
Memberships of committees:
- President of the Nordic Chapter of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA-Nordic).
- Member of the SN/K 34 national standardization committee about the energy performance of buildings.
- Member of Norsk VVS Stiftelsen – NORVAC Foundation.
Courses
- TBA4166 - Building Performance Simulation
- TEP4910 - Energy and Indoor Environment, Master's Thesis
- TEP4530 - Energy and Indoor Environment, Specialization Project
- EP8301 - Advanced Building Performance Simulation
- TEP4535 - Thermal Energy and Indoor Environment, Specialization Course
- TBM4322 - Building Performance Simulation
- TEP4260 - Heat Pumps for Heating and Cooling of Buildings
- TEP4245 - HVAC Engineering
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
2022
- (2022) Economic and Energy Performance of Heating and Ventilation. Systems in Deep Retrofitted Norwegian Detached Houses. Energies. vol. 15 (19).
- (2022) Characterization of the density-driven counter-flow through a doorway using Large Eddy Simulation. Building and Environment. vol. 221.
- (2022) Influence of data pre-processing and sensor dynamics on grey-box models for space-heating: Analysis using field measurements. Building and Environment. vol. 212.
2021
- (2021) Development of a data-driven model to characterize the heat storage of the building thermal mass in energy planning tools. E3S Web of Conferences. vol. 246.
- (2021) Indoor air quality in natural-ventilated bedrooms in renovated Norwegian houses. E3S Web of Conferences. vol. 246.
- (2021) Experimental test of a black-box economic model predictive control for residential space heating. Applied Energy. vol. 298.
- (2021) Analysing energy upgrading projects of single-family houses towards a Norwegian nZEB level. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS). vol. 2069.
- (2021) Systematic and data-driven literature review of the energy and indoor environmental performance of swimming facilities. Energy Efficiency. vol. 14 (7).
- (2021) The implementation of multiple linear regression for swimming pool facilities: Case study at Jøa, Norway. Energies. vol. 14 (16).
- (2021) Data pre-processing and optimization techniques for stochastic and deterministic low-order grey-box models of residential buildings. Energy and Buildings. vol. 236.
2020
- (2020) Parametric Energy Simulations of a Nordic Detached House Heated by a Wood Stove. E3S Web of Conferences. vol. 172.
- (2020) Data-driven Modelling and Optimal Control of Domestic Electric Water Heaters for Demand Response. Environmental Science and Engineering.
2019
- (2019) Evaluation of a New System Combining Wood-Burning Stove, Flue Gas Heat Exchanger and Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery in Highly-Insulated Houses. Applied Thermal Engineering. vol. 157.
- (2019) Model complexity of heat pump systems to investigate the building energy flexibility and guidelines for model implementation. Applied Energy. vol. 255.
- (2019) Predictive rule-based control to activate the energy flexibility of Norwegian residential buildings: Case of an air-source heat pump and direct electric heating. Applied Energy. vol. 237.
- (2019) Evaluation Method for the Hourly Average CO2eq. Intensity of the Electricity Mix and Its Application to the Demand Response of Residential Heating. Energies. vol. 12 (7).
- (2019) Wood burning habits and its effect on the electrical energy demand of a retrofitted Norwegian detached house. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (EES). vol. 352:01022.
- (2019) Energy efficiency of strategies to enable temperature zoning during winter in highly-insulated residential buildings equipped with balanced mechanical ventilation. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (EES). vol. 352 (1).
- (2019) Review of HVAC strategies for energy renovation of detached houses towards nZEB in cold climates. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (EES). vol. 352 (1).
- (2019) Influence of thermal zoning and electric radiator control on the energy flexibility potential of Norwegian detached houses. E3S Web of Conferences. vol. 111.