Dirk Saelens

Dirk Saelens

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

H-index: 35

Europe-Belgium

About Dirk Saelens

Dirk Saelens, With an exceptional h-index of 35 and a recent h-index of 29 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, specializes in the field of Energy in Buildings, District Energy Systems, Building Integrated PhotoVoltaics, Smart Cities.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

In search of optimal building behavior models for model predictive control in the context of flexibility

Estimating the as-built thermal performance of dwellings using simulated on-board data: From ideal to limited monitoring

Potential of air-source heat pumps to reduce environmental impacts in 18 European countries

Hospitalised patients' adaptation strategies and how they influence their indoor environmental comfort

Hospitalized patients’ adaptation strategies and how they influence their environmental comfort

Implementation of a Predictive Control for an All-air Ventilation System in an Educational Building

Towards large scale heat loss coefficient assessment starting from limited on-board measured data

Estimating time-dependent solar gains through opaque building envelope parts: an explorative study on a test box

Dirk Saelens Information

University

Position

Full Professor Energy in Buildings / EnergyVille

Citations(all)

5193

Citations(since 2020)

3124

Cited By

3136

hIndex(all)

35

hIndex(since 2020)

29

i10Index(all)

85

i10Index(since 2020)

63

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Dirk Saelens Skills & Research Interests

Energy in Buildings

District Energy Systems

Building Integrated PhotoVoltaics

Smart Cities

Top articles of Dirk Saelens

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

In search of optimal building behavior models for model predictive control in the context of flexibility

Building Simulation

Arash Erfani

Tohid Jafarinejad

Staf Roels

Dirk Saelens

2024/1

Estimating the as-built thermal performance of dwellings using simulated on-board data: From ideal to limited monitoring

Energy and Buildings

Katia Ritosa

Dirk Saelens

Staf Roels

2024/4/15

Potential of air-source heat pumps to reduce environmental impacts in 18 European countries

Energy

Célia Masternak

Simon Meunier

Vincent Reinbold

Dirk Saelens

Claude Marchand

...

2024/4/1

Hospitalised patients' adaptation strategies and how they influence their indoor environmental comfort

Sara Willems

Dirk Saelens

Ann Heylighen

2024

Hospitalized patients’ adaptation strategies and how they influence their environmental comfort

Sara Willems

Dirk Saelens

Ann Heylighen

2023/1/10

Implementation of a Predictive Control for an All-air Ventilation System in an Educational Building

Bart Merema

Dirk Saelens

Hilde Breesch

2023/6/28

Towards large scale heat loss coefficient assessment starting from limited on-board measured data

AIP Conference Proceedings

Katia Ritosa

Dirk Saelens

Staf Roels

2023/11/9

Estimating time-dependent solar gains through opaque building envelope parts: an explorative study on a test box

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

Xiang Zhang

Dorit Aviv

Dirk Saelens

Staf Roels

2023/12/1

Assessment of the Effects of the Cavity in BIPV Applications

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

Abdella Alzade

Dirk Saelens

2023/12/1

In-situ Data-driven Estimation of Dynamic Solar Gains in Buildings: Grey-and Black-box Approaches

Xiang Zhang

2023/1/9

Understanding and Estimating Patients’ Indoor Environmental Quality Assessment: A Pilot Case Study in a Hospital Ward

Sara Willems

Dirk Saelens

Ann Heylighen

2023/6/26

Assessing the co-heating test as reference for heat loss coefficient estimation: In-depth analysis on an artificial dataset

Energy and Buildings

Katia Ritosa

Dirk Saelens

Staf Roels

2023/11/1

How reliable is the co-heating test?

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

K Ritosa

Dirk Saelens

Staf Roels

2023/12/1

Understanding Discrepancies between predicted and experienced (Dis) comfort for hospitalized Patients: Four Reasons explored

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

Sara Willems

Dirk Saelens

Ann Heylighen

2023/12/1

Application of model predictive control to building design optimisation

E3S Web of Conferences

Rui Guo

Dirk Saelens

2023

Evaluating the impact of insulation on activating energy flexibility in residential dwellings

Proceedings of Building Simulation 2023: 18th Conference of IBPSA

Arash Erfani

Tohid Jafarinejad

Wout Jacobs

Abdella Alzade

Staf Roels

...

2023/6/15

Clustering methods to select representative days for heat pumps optimal operation accounting for electricity grid constraints

Célia Masternak

Cécile Begassat-Piquet

Clémence Lévêque

Simon Meunier

Vincent Reinbold

...

2023/10/23

Linking dataset quality and MPC in buildings: impact of temporal resolution

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

Arash Erfani

Tohid Jafarinejad

Staf Roels

Dirk Saelens

2023/12/1

A large scale artificial dataset to evaluate the impact of on-board monitoring set-ups on the Heat Transfer Coefficient assessment

Energy and Buildings

Katia Ritosa

Dirk Saelens

Staf Roels

2023/6/15

Data-driven estimation of time-dependent solar gain coefficient in a two-zone building with synthetic occupants: Two B-splines integrated grey-box modeling approaches

Building and Environment

Xiang Zhang

Dirk Saelens

Staf Roels

2023/10/1

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Co-Authors

H-index: 65
Johan Driesen

Johan Driesen

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

H-index: 55
Helsen Lieve

Helsen Lieve

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

H-index: 48
Erik Delarue

Erik Delarue

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

H-index: 27
Kenneth Bruninx

Kenneth Bruninx

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

H-index: 23
Ralf Klein

Ralf Klein

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

H-index: 20
Griet VERBEECK

Griet VERBEECK

Universiteit Hasselt

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