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Jan, 2024
FUNDING Dr. Wei Liu (PI of Task 1) received a grant from National Key R&D Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology, China, on “National Quality Infrastructure (NQI)” (2023YFF0613101).
PAPER ACCEPTED Evolution of particle size distribution and water content for oily particles in machining workshops. Accepted by Journal of Building Engineering.
Oct, 2023
PAPER ACCEPTED Prediction of urban airflow fields around isolated high-rise buildings using data-driven non-linear correction models. Accepted by Building and Environment.
PAPER ACCEPTED Deep learning to develop zero-equation based turbulence model for CFD simulations of the built environment. Accepted by Building Simulation.
Aug, 2023
PAPER ACCEPTED Shape optimization of the exhaust hood in machining workshops by a discrete adjoint method, accepted by Building and Environment.
June, 2023
PAPER ACCEPTED An open-source and experimentally guided CFD strategy for predicting air distribution in data centers with air-cooling, accepted by Building and Environment.
PAPER ACCEPTED Comparison of the time-dependent characteristics between particle mass and particle number emissions during oil heating and emission mitigation strategies, accepted by Building and Environment.
INVITED TALK I presented work with the topic "Inverse design of built environments with shape optimizations" at the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, invited by Dr. Chun Chen.
External Examiner Modeling airborne infectious particle transport in indoor environemnts. HUANG, Wenjie. A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, July 2023.
External Examiner Development of electrospun nanofiber filters for indoor air quality control. NIU, Zhuolun. A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 2023.
External Examiner Development of advanced control algorithms for mitigating indoor PM2.5 pollution. AN, Yuting. A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 2023.
April, 2023
PAPER ACCEPTED CFD modeling of dynamic airflow and particle transmission in an aircraft lavatory, accepted by Building Simulation.
PAPER ACCEPTED Inverse identification model for release rates of multiple gaseous pollution sources in an aircraft cabin, accepted by Indoor and Built Environment.
March, 2023
PAPER ACCEPTED Simulation study of the purification system for indoor oil mist control in machining factories, accepted by Building Simulation.
PAPER ACCEPTED A review of data-driven fault detection and diagnostics for building HVAC systems, accepted by Applied Energy.
Feb, 2023
OPPONENT Dr. Wei Liu was invited by Dr. Gaetano Sardina to be the opponent of Licentiate of Engineering in Thermo and Fluid Dynamics, “Numerical Simulations of the Urban Microclimate”, Chalmers University of Technology
PAPER ACCEPTED Temperature-dependent particle mass emission rate during heating of edible oils and their regression models, accepted by Environmental Pollution.
JAN, 2023
PAPER ACCEPTED Building Form and Outdoor Thermal Comfort: Inverse Design the Microclimate of Outdoor Space for a Kindergarten. accepted by Energy and Buildings.
Nov, 2022
FUNDING Dr. Wei Liu (PI) received a grant from Research Pairs project, Digital Futures, "Faster-than-real-time and high-resolution simulation of fluid flow in engineering applications: indoor climate as a pilot", SEK 2,000,000.
INVITED TALK I presented work with the topic "Inverse design of a thermally comfortable indoor environment with a coupled CFD and multi-segment human thermoregulation model" at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College of London, UK, invited by Dr. Li Ma.
Oct, 2022
INVITED TALK I gave a talk on the progress of our C3.ai DTI project in Research breakout sessions at Digitalize in Stockholm 2022.
PAPER ACCEPTED Inverse design of a thermally comfortable indoor environment with a coupled CFD and multi-segment human thermoregulation model, accepted by Building and Environment.
Sep, 2022
PAPER ACCEPTED A dynamic anomaly detection method of building energy consumption based on data mining technology, accepted by Energy.
Apr, 2022
PAPER ACCEPTED Inverse modeling of thermal boundary conditions in commercial aircrafts based on Green's function and regularization method, accepted by Building and Environment.
Feb, 2022
PAPER ACCEPTED A semi-empirical mesh strategy for CFD simulation of indoor airflow, accepted by Indoor and Built Environment.
PAPER ACCEPTED Predictive control of multi-zone variable air volume air-conditioning system based on radial basis function neural network, accepted by Energy and Buildings.
Nov, 2021
PAPER ACCEPTED Evaluation of fast fluid dynamics with different turbulence models for predicting outdoor airflow and pollutant dispersion is accpted by Sustainable Cities and Society.
Oct, 2021
INVITED TALK I presented work related to the proposed project "AI-Based Prediction of Urban Climate and Its Impact on Built Environments" at a session of the C3.ai DTI Colloquium.
INVITED TALK At digitalize Stockholm, I gave a short talk about our ongoing research on AI-Based Prediction of Urban Climate. You can find the recored presentation on Digital Futures Youtube channel.
PAPER ACCEPTED Evaluation and comparison of various fast fluid dynamics modeling methods for predicting airflow around buildings is accepted by Building Simulation.
PAPER ACCEPTED Comparing calculation methods of state transfer matrix in Markov chain models for indoor contaminant transport, accepted by Building and Environment.
PAPER ACCEPTED Performance of fast fluid dynamics with a semi-Lagrangian scheme and an implicit upwind scheme in simulating indoor/outdoor airflow is accepted by Building and Environment.
Aug, 2021
PAPER ACCEPTED Deep learning to replace, improve, or aid CFD analysis in built environment applications: a review is accepted by Building and Environment.
Jul, 2021
PAPER ACCEPTED Estimation of aerator air demand by an embedded multi-gene genetic programming is accepted by Journal of Hydroinformatics.
Jun, 2021
FUNDING Dr. Wei Liu received a grant from C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute (PI), "AI-Based Prediction of Urban Climate and Its Impact on Built Environments", SEK 1,418,272, 07/2021 - 06/2022.
May, 2021
PAPER ACCEPTED Influence of thermal environment on attendance and adaptive behaviors in outdoor spaces: a study in a cold-climate university campus is accepted by International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
April 21, 2021
AWARD Giovanni Calzolari was awarded the PhD scholarship from the Lars Erik Lundberg Scholarship Foundation.
Mar, 2021
PAPER ACCEPTED A building energy consumption prediction model based on rough set theory and deep learning algorithms is accepted by Energy and Buildings.
January 15, 2021
FUNDING Dr. Wei Liu received a grant from STINT (Stiftelsen för internationalisering av högre utbildning och forskning) (PI), "Covid-19 laden bioaerosol generation, transport, and its removal in public washroom", SEK 526,800, 01/2021 - 12/2023.
July 09, 2019
FUNDING Dr. Wei Liu received a grant from Zhejiang University - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute Research Program (Co-PI, Professor Vishal Verma from UIUC as PI), "Toxicity Burden associated with Fine Ambient Particulate Matter (PM2.5) in Human Respiratory System", $75,000, 07/2019-07/2020.
April 18, 2019
AWARD The team of Hangzheng Lin, Xinhao Tong, Jinsong Yuan with faculty advisor Wei Liu was designated as Outstanding Winner and INFORMS Award in 2019 Mathematical Contest in Modeling.
Sep 2-3, 2018
VISITORS Prof. Tami Bond from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign visited the International Campus of Zhejiang University.
Aug 16, 2018
FUNDING Dr. Wei Liu received a grant from NSFC, "Inverse design of built environment by integrated CFD-based adjoint method and entransy theory", ￥270,000, 01/2019-12/2021.
July 21, 2018
VISITORS Dr. Dayi Lai from Shanghai Jiao Tong University visited the International Campus of Zhejiang University.
June 2-5, 2018
PAPER PRESENTSTION Dr. Wei Liu attended the Roomvent & Ventilation 2018 conference, Espoo, Finland. His paper entitled "A novel diagnostic technology for air infiltration in buildings using an infrared camera" won the Best Paper Award.
May 31, 2018
VISITORS Prof. Jianshun "Jensen" Zhang from the Building Energy and Environmental Systems Laboratory in the Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering of Syracuse University visited the International Campus of Zhejiang University.
Feb 5-9, 2018
PAPER PRESENTATION Dr. Wei Liu attended the 4th International Conference on Building Energy and Environment (COBEE 2018), Melbourne, Australia.
Oct 21, 2017
PAPER PRESENTATION Dr. Wei Liu attended the 10th International Symposium on Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (ISHVAC 2017), Jinan, China.
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