CONTENTS List of figures vii List of tables xi List of contributors xii Acknowledgement xiii Prologue : introduction and overview of field 1 Ali M. Malkawi and Godfried Augenbroe 1. Trends in building simulation 4 Godfried Augenbroe 2. Uncertainty in building simulation 25 Sten De Wit 3. Simulation and uncertainty : weather predictions 60 Larry Degelman 4. Integrated building airflow simulation 87 Jan Hensen 5. The use of Computational Fluid Dynamics tools for indoor environmental design 119 Quingyan (Yan) Chen and Zhiqiang (John) Zhai 6. New perspectives on Computational Fluid Dynamics simulation 141 D. Michelle Addington 7. Self-organizing models for sentient buildings 159 Ardeshir Mahdavi 8. Development in interoperability 189 Godfried Augenbroe 9. Immersive building simulation 217 Ali M. Malkawi Epilogue 247 Godfried Augenbroe and Ali M. Malkawi Index 249