High-Performance Buildings
Buildings consume 40% of the country’s energy. That’s why Purdue conducts vital research in heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, refrigeration, and compressors. Not only does HVAC research affect energy and the environment, but human-building interactions can show how people function more efficiently, more happily, and more safely in high-performance buildings.
Since 1958, Herrick Labs has been the leading testbed in this field, and is now the largest academic HVAC lab in the world. In addition to labs for compressors and refrigeration, they also host Living Labs , which allow human-building interaction studies with precise controls of temperature, humidity, light levels, airflow, and acoustic treatments.
Herrick Labs houses the Center for High Performance Buildings , an industry consortium dedicated to developing and assessing new technologies that can enable high performance buildings of the future. Every two years, they host one of the largest international conferences in Compressor Engineering, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, and High Performance Buildings.
Faculty in High-Performance Buildings
Modeling and Analysis of Thermal Systems
Heat Pumping, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Technologies
High Performance Buildings
Refrigerant and Lubricant Properties
Uncertainty propagation
Inverse problems
Propagation of information across scales
Optimal learning
Materials by design
Acoustics
Active and passive noise control
Sound field visualization
Structural acoustics and wave propagation in structures
Noise control material modeling
Applied signal processing
Modeling, analysis, and control of thermal systems
Dynamic systems and control
Mechatronics
Digital and functional printing and fabrication
Motion and vibration control and perception
Embedded systems and real-time control
Sound quality
Signal Processing
Data analysis
System modeling and identification
Condition monitoring of machinery
Perception-based engineering
Seat-occupant modeling
Structural Dynamics and Control
Cyber-physical Systems
Machine Vision
Real-time Hybrid Simulation
Damage Detection and Structural Condition Monitoring
Cyberinfrastructure Development
Thermal sciences as applied to HVAC&R systems and equipment
Application of Artificial Intelligence for Data-Driven Modeling, Analysis, Optimization, and Control
Physics Informed Machine Learning and Reduced-Order Modeling
Turbulence, Combustion, Sprays, and Particle Laden Flows
Multiscale and Multiphysics Modeling and Simulation
Computational Fluid Dynamics and High-Performance Computing
Energy Systems Modeling, Multi-Criteria Analysis and Decision Making
Renewable Energy and Smart Energy Systems
Dynamic modeling and optimal control; model predictive control; decentralized control
Thermodynamics-based optimization; entropy generation minimization; exergy analysis
Integrated energy management and storage in distributed energy systems, building systems
Building electrification, flexibility, and efficiency
Integrating flexible loads, energy storage, and distributed solar into power grids
Optimization and control under uncertainty
Energy policy
Naturally nanostructured materials
Energy, water, and wearable technology
Manufacturing
Acoustic Source Modeling and sound field reconstruction
Active noise control
Room acoustics simulation and auralization
Noise control treatments
Human perception of noise
Transport Phenomena in Multi-Scale, Heterogeneous Materials & Systems
Fundamentals of Nanoscale Thermal Transport
Heat Transfer in Natural and Synthetic Fiber Systems
Thermofluids Interactions
Multi-Physics Metrology Design
Electronics Cooling and Thermal Management
Human Skill and Augmentation
Collaborative and Hybridized Intelligence
Deep Learning of Shapes and Computer Vision
Human-Robot-Machine Interactions
Making to Manufacturing (M2M)
Factory of the Future and Robotics
Manufacturing Productivity
Nonlinear Dynamics and Vibration
Resonant Micro/Nanosystems
Microscale Sensors and Actuators
Desalination & Water Treatment
Water-Food-Energy Nexus
Thermofluids
Nanotechnology
Membrane Science
Environment friendly design and life cycle engineering
Applications of bio-based materials in manufacturing
Fast and low-cost detection of pathogenic microorganisms
Biomass thermo-chemical upgrading for liquid and gaseous fuel
Advanced heat pumping/heat engine technologies and their equipment
Positive displacement compressors and expanders
High performance buildings
Thermal Management Systems
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