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Walter Buhl

1 Cyclotron Road MS 90R3147
Berkeley CA 94720
Office Location: 90-3145B
(510) 486-4912

Fred Buhl is a Senior Scientific Engineering Associate and veteran building simulation program developer with over 30 years of experience in developing simulation models for commercial building HVAC systems. He is a co-author of DOE-2 and EnergyPlus, making significant contributions to the simulation of HVAC systems in each program. He led the Simulation Research Group for three years and acted as PI for the DOE-funded project to develop EnergyPlus. He is a co-awardee of the R&D 100 award for his work on the development of EnergyPlus.

This publications database is an ongoing project, and not all Division publications are represented here yet.

Publications

2012

Wang, Liping, Philip Haves, and Walter F. Buhl. "An Improved Simple Chilled Water Cooling Coil Model ." In SimBuild 2012 IBPSA Conference., 2012. Download: PDF (1006.14 KB)

2008

Hong, Tianzhen, Walter F. Buhl, Philip Haves, Stephen E. Selkowitz, and Michael Wetter. "Comparing computer run time of building simulation programs." Building Simulation 1, no. 3 (2008): 210-213.
Hong, Tianzhen, Walter F. Buhl, and Philip Haves. EnergyPlus Analysis Capabilities for Use in Title 24. LBNL, 2008.
Hong, Tianzhen, Walter F. Buhl, and Philip Haves. EnergyPlus Run Time Analysis. LBNL, 2008.

2007

Bauman, Fred S., Thomas L. Webster, Hui Jin, Wolfgang Lukaschek, Corinne Benedek, Edward A. Arens, Paul F. Linden, Anna Lui, Walter F. Buhl, and Darryl J. Dickerhoff. ENERGY PERFORMANCE OF UNDERFLOOR AIR DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS. California Energy Commission - Public Interest Energy Research Program, 2007.
Bauman, Fred S., Thomas L. Webster, Hui Jin, Wolfgang Lukaschek, Corinne Benedek, Edward A. Arens, Paul F. Linden, Anna Lui, Walter F. Buhl, and Darryl J. Dickerhoff. Energy Performance of Underfloor Air Distribution Systems In California Energy Commission, PIER Building End-Use Energy Efficiency Program., 2007.

2006

Huang, Yu Joe, Norman Bourassa, Walter F. Buhl, Ender Erdem, and Robert J. Hitchcock. Using EnergyPlus for California Title-24 Compliance Calculations In SimBuild 2006. Cambridge, MA, USA, 2006.
Huang, Yu Joe, Norman Bourassa, Walter F. Buhl, Ender Erdem, and Robert J. Hitchcock. "Using EnergyPlus for California Title-24 compliance calculations." In SimBuild 2006. Cambridge, MA, 2006. Download: PDF (106.92 KB)

2004

Crawley, Drury B., Linda K. Lawrie, Curtis O. Pedersen, Frederick C. Winkelmann, Michael J. Witte, Richard K. Strand, Richard J. Liesen, Walter F. Buhl, Yu Joe Huang, Robert H. Henninger et al. EnergyPlus: An Update In SimBuild 2004, Building Sustainability and Performance Through Simulation. Boulder, Colorado, USA, 2004.

1985

Buhl, Walter F., Ender Erdem, Joseph H. Eto, James J. Hirsch, and Frederick C. Winkelmann. New Features of the DOE-2.1c Energy Analysis Program. LBNL, 1985. Download: PDF (1.06 MB)