Elyes Nefzaoui

TL;DR: A review of studies developing data-driven models for building scale applications with a focus on the input data characteristics and data pre-processing methods, the building typologies considered, the targeted energy end-uses and forecasting horizons, and accuracy assessment.

TL;DR: In this article, an energy audit protocol for higher education buildings is proposed to tackle simultaneously the questions of thermal comfort and energy efficiency for buildings constructed before current thermal regulation codes, which is known to be high-energy consuming.

TL;DR: In this article, an experimental study of liquid drop impacts on a granular medium (glass beads) is proposed, where four fluids were used to vary physical properties: pure distilled water, water with glycerol at two concentrations 1:1 and 1:2 v/v and water with surfactant (Tween 20) at the concentration of 0.1 ǫ l−1 (≈1 CMC).

TL;DR: In this article, a far-field radiative thermal rectifier based on high-temperature superconducting materials with a rectification ratio up to 80% was presented, which is among the highest reported in literature.

TL;DR: A thermal rectification device concept based on far-field radiative exchange between two selective emitters, constituted by two multilayer samples made of metallic and semiconductor thin films, which shows a rectification ratio increasing with temperature up to 19% for a temperature difference of ΔT=370 K.