Sensitivity analysis for robust design of building energy systems

The comprehensive design of building systems incorporates the tasks of selection, sizing and control of devices. A simultaneous acquirement of these tasks is a necessity to achieve an overall optimal design. However, such mutual optimizations become a complex problem, implying a high computational effort. A greater challenge appears once the uncertainties of boundary conditions such as weather conditions, user demands and energy costs are taken into account. A common approach to protect the suggested system configuration against the possible uncertainties is a stochastic optimization which results in a robust design.

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