Vahid Nik

2022

High-resolution impact assessment of climate change on building energy performance considering extreme weather events and microclimate – Investigating variations in indoor thermal comfort and degree-days

2022

Combining computational fluid dynamics and neural networks to characterize microclimate extremes: Learning the complex interactions between meso-climate and urban morphology

2022

Climate Change and Renewable Energy Generation in Europe: Long-Term Impact Assessment on Solar and Wind Energy Using High-Resolution Future Climate Data and Considering Climate Uncertainties

2021

Empowering energy flexibility and climate resilience using collective intelligence based demand side management (CI-DSM)

2021

Climate change and energy performance of European residential building stocks – A comprehensive impact assessment using climate big data from the coordinated regional climate downscaling experiment

2021

Towards climate resilient urban energy systems: A review

2021

Towards realization of an Energy Internet: Designing distributed energy systems using game-theoretic approach

2021

Climate resilient interconnected infrastructure: Co-optimization of energy systems and urban morphology

2021

Using collective intelligence to enhance demand flexibility and climate resilience in urban areas

2021

Assessing the climate change adaptation over four European cities

2021

A machine learning approach to enhance indoor thermal comfort in a changing climate

2020

A multi-objective optimization framework for designing climate-resilient building forms in urban areas

Interactions between extreme climate and urban morphology: Investigating the evolution of extreme wind speeds from mesoscale to microscale

Introducing reinforcement learning to the energy system design process

Quantifying the impacts of climate change and extreme climate events on energy systems

Future climate resilience through informed decision making in retrofitting projects

2020

The Importance of Developing Climate-Resilient Pathways for Energy Transition and Climate Change Adaptation

2020

Impact assessment of climate change on the energy performance of the building stocks in four European cities

2020

Optimization of building form and its fenestration in response to microclimate conditions of an urban area

Economic feasibility of building retrofitting mitigation potentials: Climate change uncertainties for Swedish cities

Machine learning methods to assist energy system optimization

A novel design-based optimization framework for enhancing the energy efficiency of high-rise office buildings in urban areas

Impacts of future weather data typology on building energy performance – Investigating long-term patterns of climate change and extreme weather conditions

2019

Towards climate robust buildings: An innovative method for designing buildings with robust energy performance under climate change

2019

Impacts of Microclimate Conditions on the Energy Performance of Buildings in Urban Areas

Evaluating the impacts of urban form on the microclimate in the dense areas

2019

Impacts of extreme climate conditions due to climate change on the energy system design and operation

2019

Impacts of climate change and its uncertainties on the renewable energy generation and energy demand in urban areas

Redefining energy system flexibility for distributed energy system design

Linking Neighborhoods into Sustainable Energy Systems

Assessing the impacts of climate change on the german building stock

2019

A review of assessment methods for the urban environment and its energy sustainability to guarantee climate adaptation of future cities

2018

Simulations of moisture gradients in wood subjected to changes in relative humidity and temperature due to climate change

Passive design optimization of newly-built residential buildings in Shanghai for improving indoor thermal comfort while reducing building energy demand

Impacts of urban morphology on reducing cooling load and increasing ventilation potential in hot-arid climate

2018

A new framework to evaluate urban design using urban microclimatic modeling in future climatic conditions

2017

Investigating the importance of future climate typology on estimating the energy performance of buildings in the EPFL campus

2017

Using Typical and Extreme Weather Files for Impact Assessment of Climate Change on Buildings

Electrical hubs: An effective way to integrate non-dispatchable renewable energy sources with minimum impact to the grid

2017

Optimum design of distributed energy hubs using hybrid surrogate models (HSM)

An integrated approach to design site specific distributed electrical hubs combining optimization, multi-criterion assessment and decision making

Application of typical and extreme weather data sets in the hygrothermal simulation of building components for future climate - A case study for a wooden frame wall

Making energy simulation easier for future climate - Synthesizing typical and extreme weather data sets out of regional climate models (RCMs)

Future moisture loads for building facades in Sweden: Climate change and wind-driven rain

A statistical method for comparing different retrofitting measures of buildings and evaluating their robustness against climate change

2015

Assessing the efficiency and robustness of the retrofitted building envelope against climate change

Impact study of the climate change on the energy performance of the building stock in Stockholm considering four climate uncertainties

Climate Change and Wind-Driven Rain – a Preliminary Study about Climate Uncertainties

Studying the importance of two uncertainty factors of the future climate in energy simulation of the Swedish building stocks

2012

Hygrothermal Simulations of Buildings Concerning Uncertainties of the Future Climate

Assessment of hygrothermal performance and mould growth risk in ventilated attics in respect to possible climate changes in Sweden

Statistical methods for assessing and analysing the building performance in respect to the future climate

Mould Growth Inside an Attic Concerning Four Different Future Climate Scenarios

2010

Climate Simulation of an Attic Using Future Weather Data Sets - Statistical Methods for Data Processing and Analysis

Considering the possible changes of the future climate in designing the sustainable buildings

INFLUENCE OF THE UNCERTAINTIES IN FUTURE CLIMATE SCENARIOS ON THE HYGRO-THERMAL SIMULATION OF AN ATTIC

The uncertainties in simulating the future hygro-thermal performance of an attic related to global climate models

STATISTICAL METHODS FOR ASSESSMENT OF LONG-TERM HYGRO-THERMAL PERFORMANCE OF BUILDINGS

Hygro-thermal response of a ventilated attic to the future climate load in Sweden

Hygro-thermal response of a ventilated attic to the future climate load in Sweden

Effect of climate change on energy consumption in buildings

Using Controlled Active Mass (CAM) to decrease energy demand for cooling

Long term simulation of the hygro-thermal response of buildings - Results and questions