Applied Data Analysis and Modeling for Energy Engineers and Scientists (eng)

Now in a thoroughly revised and expanded second edition, this classroom-tested text demonstrates and illustrates how to apply concepts and methods learned in disparate courses such as mathematical modeling, probability, statistics, experimental design, regression, optimization, parameter estimation, inverse modeling, risk analysis, decision-making, and sustainability assessment methods to energy processes and systems. It provides a formal structure that offers a broad and integrative perspective to enhance knowledge, skills, and confidence to work in applied data analysis and modeling problems. This new edition also reflects recent trends and advances in statistical modeling as applied to energy and building processes and systems. It includes numerous examples from recently published technical papers to nurture and stimulate a more research-focused mindset. How the traditional stochastic data modeling methods complement data analytic algorithmic approaches such as machine learning and data mining is also discussed. The important societal issue related to the sustainability of energy systems is presented, and a formal structure is proposed meant to classify the various assessment methods found in the literature. 

T Agami Reddy, PhD, is  Professor Emeritus of Energy and Environment at Arizona State University. He is a licensed mechanical engineer with about 40 years of teaching and research experience in solar energy system simulation and testing, building energy inverse data analysis and modeling, energy efficient and green building technologies, and sustainable/resilience as applied to energy infrastructure systems. He has over 190 journal publications (three of which received best paper awards), edited four conference proceedings or special journal issues, contributed to seven handbook chapters and written three textbooks: The Design and Sizing of Active Solar Systems (Oxford Univ Press, 1987), Applied Data Analysis and Modeling for Energy Engineers and Scientists (Springer, 2011), and Heating and Cooling of Buildings (3^rd ed., CRC, 2016). He has completed about 50 research projects with funding from organizations such as NSF, USDOE, EPA, NIST, Homeland Security, ASHRAE and several building control companies. He is Fellow of ASME (past chair of Solar Energy Division, past Associate Editor of ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, and ASME Journal of Sustainable Buildings and Cities) and Fellow of ASHRAE (past Chair of Research Advisory Committee, and past member of Research Advisory Panel). He received his PhD and MS from the Laboratoire de Thermodynamique et d'Energetique, University of Perpignan, France.