Simulation of Hourly Energy Needs at Urban Scale: A Methodology of Adapted Modeling
Résumé
The simulation of the energy demand at the city or the
district level is a research area under full development.
The applications are numerous for engineers
(management of heating networks, photovoltaic and
shares energy…) as well as city planners or urban
planning decision makers. This work thus aims at
contributing to the development of methods and tools for
simulation applied to urban territories. These tools are
different from the actual tools which are centered on the
behavior of one building in an urban site. Described
methodology consists in a decomposition of the city in
districts, each district being represented by a set of
buildings. The electrical analogy models representing
each building are assembled in a global state model and
then mathmatically reduced to represent the district.
These state models representing the districts are
assembled and reduced to represent the city. It is
necessary to adopt a quite particular structure of the state
models so that these operations of assembly are possible.
This procedure is described in the present paper, the
results obtained on large territories are presented and they
prove the effectiveness of the method.