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Dr Wei Tian

Title:

Research Associate

Group:

Structures

Division:

Civil, structural & environmental engineering

Research Interest:

  • Building energy use in urban environment (Energy Efficient Cities initiative)
  • Building energy analysis and simulation (EnergyPlus and EE4)
  • Uncertainty analysis, sensitivity analysis, and inverse problems in building energy simulation (Simlab, R, SPSS)
  • GIS (Geographical information system) and spatial regression in urban built environment (ArcGIS, R spdep)
  • Time series analysis and regression for half hour building energy data
  • Application of machine learning methods in building energy analysis

·         Random forest, support vector machine, lasso, Gaussian process, etc. (R statistical computing)

  • Impact and adaptation to climate change in building thermal performance
  • Building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV)
  • Interaction between building energy use, urban micro-climate and solar energy use

Publications:

http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/research/publications/wt238

Journal papers:

*    Wei Tian, Ruchi Choudhary, A probabilistic energy model for non-domestic building sectors: applied to analysis of school buildings in Greater London, Energy and Buildings, 2012, 54: 1-11 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2012.06.031.

*    Pieter de Wilde, Wei Tian, Management of thermal performance risks in buildings subject to climate change. Building and Environment, 2012, 55: 167-177.

*    Pieter de Wilde, Wei Tian, Towards probabilistic performance metrics for climate change impact studies, Energy and Buildings, 2011, 43(11): 3013-3018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2011.07.014

*    Wei Tian, Pieter de Wilde, Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis of building performance using probabilistic climate projections: A UK case study, Automation in Construction, 2011, 20(8): 1096-1109, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2011.04.011

*    Pieter de Wilde, Wei Tian, Godfried Augenbroe, Longitudinal prediction of the operational energy use of buildings, Building and Environment, 2011, 46(8): 1670-1680.

*    Wei Tian, Pieter de Wilde, Thermal building simulation using the UKCP09 probabilistic climate projections, Journal of Building Performance Simulation, 2011, 4(2): 105-124. DOI: 10.1080/19401493.2010.502246

*    Pieter de Wilde, Wei Tian, Predicting the performance of an office under climate change: a study of metrics, sensitivity and zonal resolution, Energy and Buildings, 2010, 42 (10): 1674-1684.

*    Pieter de Wilde, Wei Tian, The role of adaptive thermal comfort in the prediction of the thermal performance of a modern mixed-mode office building in the UK under climate change. Journal of Building Performance Simulation. 2010, 3(2): 87-101.

*    Pieter de Wilde, Wei Tian, Identification of key factors for uncertainty in the prediction of the thermal performance of an office building under climate change, Building Simulation an International Journal, 2009, 2(3): 157-174.

*    Z Tian, J Love, W Tian. Applying quality control in building energy modelling: comparative simulation of a high performance building. Journal of Building Performance Simulation. 2009, 2(3) :163-178.

*    Wei Tian, Yiping Wang, Jianbo Ren, Li Zhu. Effect of urban climate on Building Integrated Photovoltaics Performance. Energy Conversion and Management. 2007, 48(1):1-8.

*    Wei Tian, Yiping Wang, Yiyang Xie, Danzhu Wu, Li Zhu, Jianbo Ren. Effect of Building Integrated Photovoltaics on Microclimate of Urban Canopy Layer. Building and Environment. 2006 42(5):1891-1901.

*    Yiping Wang, Wei Tian, Jianbo Ren, Li Zhu, Qingzhao Wang. Influence of Building Integrated Photovoltaics on Heating and Cooling Loads. Applied Energy. 2006 83(9):989-1003.

*    Yiping Wang, Wei Tian, Li Zhu, Jianbo Ren, Yonghui Liu. Interactions between building integrated photovoltaics and microclimate in urban environments. Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME, 2006, 128(2):168-172.

Conference papers:

*    Tian, Wei, and Choudhary, Ruchi, Spatial analysis of gas consumption by non-domestic buildings in Greater London, The 5th International Building Physics Conference, Kyoto, Japan, 28-31 May 2012

*    Adam Rysanek, Adam Booth, Wei Tian, Ruchi Choudhary, Incorporating climate models into building energy simulation to assess the future impacts and likely adaptation to climate change, The 5th International Building Physics Conference, Kyoto, Japan, 28-31 May 2012

*    Tian, Wei; and Choudhary, Ruchi, Energy use of buildings at urban scale: a case study of London school buildings. IBPSA 2011, Sydney.

*    De Wilde, Pieter, and Tian Wei, Building performance simulation for the management of thermal performance risks in buildings subject to climate change. IBPSA 2011, Sydney.

*    Wei Tian, Pieter de Wilde, Sampling-based sensitivity analysis of thermal performance in domestic buildings under climate change. Proceedings of the 2011 EG-ICE Workshop, University of Twente, Netherlands, July 6-8, 2011.

*    Pieter de Wilde, Yaqub Rafiq, Wei Pan, Wei Tian, Intelligent support for the optimal design configuration of high performance homes. 27th International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture PLEA 2011, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 13-15 July 2011.

*    de Wilde, P and Tian, W. Simulation as a tool to inform facilities management under climate change: a case study. SSB2010, 8th International Conference on System Simulation in Buildings, University of Liege, Belgium, December 13-15 2010.

*    Tian, W., Beck, R., Pan, W. and De Wilde, P., 2010. Climate change risks in decision-making in building design and facilities management. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, W. TIZANI (Editor), 30 June-2 July, Nottingham, UK, University of Nottingham Press, Paper 80, ISBN 978-1-907284-60-1

*    Tian W, Pan W, de Wilde P, Climate change risk management for buildings. CIB World Congress 2010, Salford Quays, UK.

*    Pieter de Wilde, Wei Tian. Preliminary application of a methodology for risk assessment of thermal failures in buildings subject to climate change. Building Simulation 2009.  Glasgow 27 – 30 July 2009.

*    Pieter de Wilde, Wei Tian. A framework for computing the risks of thermal failures in buildings subject to climate change. European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering EG-ICE 16th Conference.  Berlin 15 – 17 July 2009 in Berlin, Germany.

*    Jim Love, Wei Tian, Zhen Tian, Window-To-Wall ratios and commercial building environment control in cold climates, 33rd Annual Conference of the Solar Energy Society of Canada & 3rd Canadian Solar Building Research Network Conference, 2008.

*    Zhen Tian, Wei Tian, Jim Love, Simulation of a high performance building with EnergyPlus, SimBuild 2008, 3rd National Conference of IBPSA-USA, 2008.

*    Yiping Wang, Wei Tian, Yonghui Liu, Zhiyong Yang, Li Zhu. System Modeling of Greenhouse Type Solar Water Heater. 2005 International Solar Energy Conference (ASME), August 6-12, 2005 Orlando, Florida (USA)

*    Yiping Wang, Li Zhu, Zhenlei Fang, Wei Tian, Simulation and experimental study on fresh water production from seawater using solar chimney. Proceedings of ISES 2005 Solar World Congress. August 6-12, 2005 Orlando, Florida (USA)

*    Yiping Wang, Wei Tian, Yonghui Liu. Thermal modeling of solar cells immersed in dielectric liquid. Proceedings of 5th ISES Europe Solar Conference, Germany (Freiburg). 2004, 3-414~421

Education and Employment:

 

2011.2-now     Researcher, University of Cambridge, UK

2009.01-2011.1           Researcher, University of Plymouth, UK

2006.10-2008.09         Researcher, University of Calgary, Canada

2003.02-2006.08         Ph.D. Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

1997.09-2000.01         MSc, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin , China

1993.09-1997.01         BSc, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin , China

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