David Blum

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2026

Walnum, Harald Taxt, Balázs András Tolnai, David Blum, Jicheng Shi, Colin N Jones, Deep Dessai, Wenbin Wang, Wenjie Xu, Sebastien Gros, and Igor Sartori. "Smart building HVAC control challenge: experience and solutions from the ADRENALIN project." Journal of Building Performance Simulation (2026) 1–22.

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2025

Zanetti, Ettore, David Blum, Hongxiang Fu, Chris Weyandt, Marco Pritoni, and Mary Ann Piette. "Commercial building HVAC demand flexibility with model predictive control: Field demonstration and literature insights." Energy and Buildings 345 (2025) 116097.

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Paul, Lazlo, Ettore Zanetti, Jingjing Liu, Armando Casillas, Anand Prakash, David Blum, Robert Nirenberg, and Marco Pritoni. "BOPTEST as a Platform for Building Controls and Grid-Interactive Buildings Workforce Training." 2025.

Zheng, Wanfu, Laura Zabala, Jesus Febres, David Blum, and Zhe Wang. "Quantifying and simulating the weather forecast uncertainty for advanced building control." Journal of Building Performance Simulation (2025) 1–16.

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2024

Fu, Hongxiang, Ettore Zanetti, Jianjun Hu, David Blum, and Michael Wetter. "A Modelica Implementation of an Organic Rankine Cycle." Vol. 207. Linköping University Electronic Press, 2024. 127–135.

Zanetti, Ettore, David Blum, Marco Pritoni, and Mary Ann Piette. "Field Performance of Commercial Building Load Flexibility Using Model Predictive Control." 8th International High Performance Buildings Conference at Purdue. West Lafayette, IN, 2024.

Benne, Kyle, Jermy Thomas, Jiazhen Ling, David Blum, and Amir Roth. "Simulation-Driven Rating of Smart Thermostats." Eleventh National Conference of IBPSA-USA SimBuild 2024. Denver, CO: IBPSA-USA, 2024.

2023

Zanetti, Ettore, David Blum, and Michael Wetter. "Control development and sizing analysis for a 5th generation district heating and cooling network using Modelica." 15th International Modelica Conference. Aachen, Germany, 2023.

Arroyo, Javier, Lucas Verleyen, Lucas Bex, Louis Hermans, Muhammad Hafeez Saeed, Yucun Lu, Joris Depoortere, Attila Bálint, Erik Delarue, Johan Driesen, Geert Deconinck, David Blum, and Lieve Helsen. "Prototyping the DOPTEST Framework for Simulation-Based Testing of System Integration Strategies in Districts." Building Simulation 2023: 18th Conference of IBPSA. Vol. 18. Shanghai: IBPSA, 2023.

2022

Zhang, Kun, Anand Prakash, Lazlo Paul, David Blum, Peter Alstone, James Zoellick, Richard E Brown, and Marco Pritoni. "Model predictive control for demand flexibility: Real-world operation of a commercial building with photovoltaic and battery systems." Advances in Applied Energy 7 (2022) 100099.

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Zanetti, Ettore, Donghun Kim, David Blum, Rossano Scroccia, and Marcello Aprile. "Performance comparison of quadratic, nonlinear, and mixed integer nonlinear MPC formulations and solvers on an air source heat pump hydronic floor heating system." Journal of Building Performance Simulation (2022) 1–19.

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Kim, Donghun, Zhe Wang, James Brugger, David Blum, Michael Wetter, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette. "Site demonstration and performance evaluation of MPC for a large chiller plant with TES for renewable energy integration and grid decarbonization." Applied Energy 321 (2022) 119343.

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Helmns, Dre, Armando Casillas, Anand Prakash, David Blum, Marco Pritoni, Spencer M Dutton, Jonathan Woolley, and Subhrajit Chakraborty. "Heat Pumps with Phase Change Thermal Storage: Flexible, Efficient, and Electrification Friendly." 2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. Pacific Grove, CA: ACEEE, 2022.

Blum, David, Zhe Wang, Chris Weyandt, Donghun Kim, Michael Wetter, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette. "Field demonstration and implementation analysis of model predictive control in an office HVAC system." Applied Energy 318 (2022) 119104.

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Luo, Na, Zhe Wang, David Blum, Christopher Weyandt, Norman Bourassa, Mary Ann Piette, and Tianzhen Hong. "A three-year dataset supporting research on building energy management and occupancy analytics." Nature Scientific Data (2022).

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Fu, Hongxiang, David Blum, and Michael Wetter. "Fan and Pump Efficiency in Modelica based on the Euler Number." American Modelica Conference 2022. 2022.

Zhang, Kun, David Blum, Hwakong Cheng, Gwelen Paliaga, Michael Wetter, and Jessica Granderson. "Estimating ASHRAE Guideline 36 energy savings for multi-zone variable air volume systems using Spawn of EnergyPlus." Journal of Building Performance Simulation 15.2 (2022) 215–236.

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2021

Blum, David, Javier Arroyo, Sen Huang, Ján Drgoňa, Filip Jorissen, Harald Taxt Walnum, Yan Chen, Kyle Benne, Draguna Vrabie, Michael Wetter, and Lieve Helsen. "Building optimization testing framework (BOPTEST) for simulation-based benchmarking of control strategies in buildings." Journal of Building Performance Simulation 14.5 (2021) 586–610.

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Helmns, Dre, David Blum, Armando Casillas, Anand Prakash, Jonathan Woolley, David Vernon, Caton Mande, Michael Woodcox, and Spencer M Dutton. "Towards a Techno-Economic Analysis of PCM-Integrated Hybrid HVAC Systems." 6th International High Performance Buildings Conference at Purdue. Purdue, 2021.

Helmns, Dre, David Blum, Spencer M Dutton, and Van P Carey. "Development and Validation of a Latent Thermal Energy Storage Model Using Modelica." Energies 14.1 (2021) 194.

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2020

Zhang, Kun, David Blum, Milica Grahovac, Jianjun Hu, Jessica Granderson, and Michael Wetter. "Development and Verification of Control Sequences for Single- Zone Variable Air Volume System Based on ASHRAE Guideline 36." American Modelica Conference 2020. Boulder, Colorado: Proceedings of the American Modelica Conference 2020, 2020.

Drgoňa, Ján, Javier Arroyo, Iago Cupeiro Figueroa, David Blum, Krzysztof Arendt, Donghun Kim, Enric Perarnau Ollé, Juraj Oravec, Michael Wetter, Draguna L Vrabie, and Lieve Helsen. "All you need to know about model predictive control for buildings." Annual Reviews in Control (2020).

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Pritoni, Marco, Anand Prakash, David Blum, Kun Zhang, Rui Tang, and Jessica Granderson. "Advanced control sequences and FDD technology. Just shiny objects, or ready for scale?" ACEEE Summer Study 2020. 2020.

Alstone, Peter, Richard E Brown, Marco Pritoni, David Blum, Kun Zhang, and Anand Prakash. "Resilient buildings for fire-adapted landscapes: EE and flexible loads integrated with solar and storage microgrids." ACEEE Summer Study 2020. 2020.

Prakash, Anand, Kun Zhang, Pranav Gupta, David Blum, Marc Marshall, Gabe Fierro, Peter Alstone, James Zoellic, Richard E Brown, and Marco Pritoni. "Solar+ Optimizer: A Model Predictive Control Optimization Platform for Grid Responsive Building Microgrids." Energies 13.12 (2020) 3093.

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