Atila Novoselac, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

 

Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering

University of Texas at Austin

1 University Station C1752

Austin, TX 78712-1076

 

Phone: (512) 475-8175,

Fax: (512) 471-3191, 

Lab: (512) 232-7937,

E-mail: atila@mail.utexas.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS

COURSES

STUDENTS

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

OTHER

Education:

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, Architectural Engineering,  2004
M.S.,  University of Belgrade, Serbia, Mechanical Engineering,   2000
B.S.,   University of Belgrade, Serbia, Mechanical Engineering,   1994

Research Interests:

Ventilation and indoor air quality,

Computations and measurements of airflows in buildings,
Pollutants transport modeling,

Building energy analysis.

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Courses: (Click on course name to get the syllabus for that class and on semester to go to the class web page)
 

ARE 346N:   Building Environmental Systems,                             Fall 2005, Spring 2007, Spring2008, Fall2008

ARE 383:      Energy Simulation in Building Design,                      Spring 2006, Spring 2007,Spring2009

ARE 372:      Modeling of Air and Pollutant Flows in Buildings,    Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall2008

ARE 389H    HVAC Design,                                                      Spring2008

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Recent Publications:
 

Papers in Refereed Journals

• Srebric, J., Yuan, J., and Novoselac A. 2005. “On-Site Experimental Validation of a Coupled Multi-zone and CFD model,” submitted to Int. J. of Ventilation.

• Novoselac, A., Burley J. B., and Srebric J. 2005. “New Convection Correlations for Cooled Ceiling Panels in Room with Mixed and Stratified Airflow”, submitted to International Journal of HVAC&R Research.

• Novoselac, A., Burley J. B., and Srebric J. 2005. “Development of New and Validation of Existing Convection Correlations for Rooms with Displacement Ventilation Systems”, to appear in Energy and Buildings.

• Novoselac, A. and Srebric, J. 2003. "Comparison of Air Exchange Efficiency and Contaminant Removal Effectiveness as IAQ Indices", ASHRAE Transactions, 109 (2): 339-349.

• Novoselac, A. and Srebric, J. 2002. "A Critical Review on the Performance and Design of Combined Cooled Ceiling and Displacement Ventilation Systems," Energy and Buildings, 34 (5): 497-509.

Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings

• Novoselac, A. and Srebric, J. 2003. “Sensitivity Study of Parameters Influencing IAQ Indices”, Proceedings of Ventilation 2003, Sapporo, Japan.

• Novoselac, A. and Srebric, J. 2002. “Influence of Different Pollutant Sources on Selection of Ventilation System in Offices with Cooled Ceiling”, Proceedings of Indoor Air 2002, Monterey, California, USA.

• Srebric, J. and Novoselac, A. 2002. “Design of Low-Energy Cooling System by Using Coupled Energy Simulation and Computational Fluid Dynamics”, Proceedings of Roomvent 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Thesis

Coupled Airflow and Energy Simulation Program for Building Mechanical System Design, Architectural Engineering Department, the Pennsylvania State University.

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Other:

• Developed Building Energy and Air Flow (BEAF) Simulation Software.

• Participated in development of Building Environment Simulation and Testing (BEST) facility for indoor environment studies

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