Comparative Study of Four Passive Building Energy Simulations DOE 2.1, BLAST, SUNCAT 2.4, DEROB-III

Judkoff, R.; Wortman, D.; Christensen, C.; O'Doherty, R.; Simms, D.; Hannifan, M.

doi:10.2172/934385

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“…The first comprehensive validation methodology was proposed by SERI as a result of two validation studies (16,11). It comprised the following three distinct techniques (18), each claimed to be capable of revealing errors in the modelling process:…”

Section: Validation and Validation Methodologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(16) compared the four building energy analysis codes DOE 2.1, BLAST, SUNCAT-2.4 and DEROB-III, using two simple direct gain building models with data from the Madison Typical Meteorological Year (TMY). Except for DEROB-III, annual heating and cooling loads of all other three codes were within a reasonable range.…”

Section: Analytical Veriftcatian Aiid Inter-model Companymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(17) again compared the same four codes (DOE 2.1, BLAST, SUNCAT-2.4 and DEROB-III) in two different climatic conditions. Annual heating and cooling loads disagreed significantly with respect to the previous study.…”

Section: Analytical Veriftcatian Aiid Inter-model Companymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Review paper: Validation of building thermal and energy models

Ahmad

1998

Building Services Engineering Research and Technology

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A literature review is presented on the validation of thermal and energy models up to 1994. Over 65 different studies are reported here. The existing validation methodologies are reviewed. The validation process began in the early 1970s. However, there was little distinct validation methodology or procedure. Only a few high-quality, well documented data sets are available. It is concluded that much work is needed on detailed data collection, as in most of studies reported here, such data were not available. Many values had to be assumed, resulting in uncertainties in the reported comparisons.

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Section: Validation and Validation Methodologiesmentioning

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Review paper: Validation of building thermal and energy models

Ahmad

1998

Building Services Engineering Research and Technology

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“…The prediction of air temperature, mean radiant temperature, and, most importantly, dry-resultant temperature will be reported elsewhere. 10 Comparison of predicted trends in energy use…”

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Dynamic thermal models: Reliability for domestic building design

Lomas

Bloomfield

Cole

et al. 1991

Building Services Engineering Research and Technology

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This paper describes a three year UK initiative—Applicability Study 1-to enhance the usability and credibility of detailed thermal simulation programs with particular reference. to the design of passive solar dwellings. Researchers at Leicester Polytechnic and the Building Research Establishment are working with ESP, HTB2 and SERIRES. The aims are to identify the problems for which these programs can be used reliably and those for which they cannot, to provide guidance on the best modelling techniques, indicate the uncertainty inherent in predictions, identify the attributes of programs which are necessary to obtain reliable results, and indicate areas in which additional theoretical or experimental research is needed. The results to date show that good agreement in some design trends can be obtained provided a high level of quality control is exercised and program users have a good understanding of the theoretical basis of the programs. There were, however, some situations in which the programs still predicted significant differences in the trends in energy consumption as the building design changed. These may be explained by the different algorithms employed by the detailed thermal simulation programs and errors in them.

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