David Blum

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

David Blum is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, David Blum has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Building and Construction, 11 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 7 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in David Blum's work include Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (19 papers), Smart Grid Energy Management (10 papers) and Energy Efficiency and Management (6 papers). David Blum is often cited by papers focused on Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (19 papers), Smart Grid Energy Management (10 papers) and Energy Efficiency and Management (6 papers). David Blum collaborates with scholars based in United States, Hong Kong and Belgium. David Blum's co-authors include Michael Wetter, Donghun Kim, Lieve Helsen, Javier Arroyo, Draguna Vrabie, Ján Drgoňa, Juraj Oravec, Krzysztof Arendt, Iago Cupeiro Figueroa and Leslie K. Norford and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the IEEE, Applied Energy and Energy and Buildings.

In The Last Decade

David Blum

29 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Blum United States	14	928	566	378	269	197	29	1.3k
Donghun Kim United States	19	1.1k 1.1×	522 0.9×	462 1.2×	268 1.0×	278 1.4×	75	1.5k
Javier Arroyo Belgium	11	744 0.8×	400 0.7×	335 0.9×	194 0.7×	153 0.8×	17	1.0k
Ján Drgoňa United States	14	897 1.0×	482 0.9×	574 1.5×	263 1.0×	201 1.0×	46	1.4k
Krzysztof Arendt Denmark	12	826 0.9×	334 0.6×	258 0.7×	226 0.8×	148 0.8×	24	1.1k
David Sturzenegger Switzerland	10	767 0.8×	425 0.8×	359 0.9×	188 0.7×	104 0.5×	15	988
J.D. Álvarez Spain	22	566 0.6×	403 0.7×	483 1.3×	449 1.7×	288 1.5×	91	1.5k
Markus Gwerder Switzerland	13	1.5k 1.7×	637 1.1×	632 1.7×	419 1.6×	375 1.9×	20	1.9k
Iakovos Michailidis Greece	16	580 0.6×	613 1.1×	463 1.2×	179 0.7×	112 0.6×	50	1.2k
Brian Coffey United States	10	612 0.7×	277 0.5×	345 0.9×	163 0.6×	107 0.5×	20	826
Juraj Oravec Slovakia	11	453 0.5×	257 0.5×	509 1.3×	141 0.5×	187 0.9×	67	967

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Blum, David, et al.. (2025). Commercial building HVAC demand flexibility with model predictive control: Field demonstration and literature insights. Energy and Buildings. 345. 116097–116097. 1 indexed citations

Blum, David, et al.. (2025). Quantifying and simulating the weather forecast uncertainty for advanced building control. Journal of Building Performance Simulation. 18(4). 530–545. 1 indexed citations

Blum, David, et al.. (2023). Control development and sizing analysis for a 5th generation district heating and cooling network using Modelica. Linköping electronic conference proceedings. 204. 23–32. 4 indexed citations

Luo, Na, et al.. (2022). A three-year dataset supporting research on building energy management and occupancy analytics. Scientific Data. 9(1). 156–156. 55 indexed citations

Zhang, Kun, Anand Krishnan Prakash, David Blum, et al.. (2022). Model predictive control for demand flexibility: Real-world operation of a commercial building with photovoltaic and battery systems. Advances in Applied Energy. 7. 100099–100099. 73 indexed citations

Fierro, Gabe, Anand Krishnan Prakash, David Blum, et al.. (2022). Notes paper. 250–253. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Kun, David Blum, Hwakong Cheng, et al.. (2022). Estimating ASHRAE Guideline 36 energy savings for multi-zone variable air volume systems using Spawn of EnergyPlus. Journal of Building Performance Simulation. 15(2). 215–236. 28 indexed citations

Kim, Donghun, et al.. (2022). 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. 16(2). 144–162. 10 indexed citations

Blum, David, Zhe Wang, Donghun Kim, et al.. (2022). Field demonstration and implementation analysis of model predictive control in an office HVAC system. Applied Energy. 318. 119104–119104. 115 indexed citations

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Kim, Donghun, Zhe Wang, David Blum, et al.. (2022). Site demonstration and performance evaluation of MPC for a large chiller plant with TES for renewable energy integration and grid decarbonization. Applied Energy. 321. 119343–119343. 54 indexed citations

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Blum, David, Javier Arroyo, Sen Huang, et al.. (2021). Building optimization testing framework (BOPTEST) for simulation-based benchmarking of control strategies in buildings. Journal of Building Performance Simulation. 14(5). 586–610. 101 indexed citations

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Thomas, Stephen J., et al.. (2021). Altered Functional and Structural Measures in Masters Swimmers With Shoulder Pain and Disability. Journal of Athletic Training. 56(12). 1313–1320. 4 indexed citations

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Blum, David, et al.. (2021). Development and Validation of a Latent Thermal Energy Storage Model Using Modelica. Energies. 14(1). 194–194. 7 indexed citations

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Prakash, Anand Krishnan, Kun Zhang, Pranav Gupta, et al.. (2020). Solar+ Optimizer: A Model Predictive Control Optimization Platform for Grid Responsive Building Microgrids. Energies. 13(12). 3093–3093. 10 indexed citations

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Zhang, Kun, et al.. (2020). Development and Verification of Control Sequences for Single-Zone Variable Air Volume System Based on ASHRAEGuideline 36. Linköping electronic conference proceedings. 169. 81–90. 10 indexed citations

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Kayal, Maher, et al.. (2019). Comparison of MPC Formulations for Building Control under Commercial Time-of-Use Tariffs. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 1–6. 13 indexed citations

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Lindahl, Peter, et al.. (2019). Demand Smoothing in Military Microgrids Through Coordinated Direct Load Control. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. 11(3). 1917–1927. 19 indexed citations

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Wetter, Michael, David Blum, & Jianjun Hu. (2019). Modelica IBPSA Library v1. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 3 indexed citations

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Martin, Stephen B., et al.. (2016). A new dual-collimation batch reactor for determination of ultraviolet inactivation rate constants for microorganisms in aqueous suspensions. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B Biology. 162. 674–680. 3 indexed citations

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Blum, David, Tea Žakula, & Leslie K. Norford. (2016). Opportunity Cost Quantification for Ancillary Services Provided by Heating, Ventilating, and Air-Conditioning Systems. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. 8(3). 1264–1273. 29 indexed citations

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