- Author
-
Clark, D. R.
- Title
- HVACSIM. Building Systems and Equipment Simulation Program Reference Manual.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Sponsor
- Department of Energy, Washington, DC
Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory, Port Hueneme, CA
- Report
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NBSIR 84-2996
January 1985
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
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equipment; buildings; control equipment; air conditioning; ventilation; heating; heating equipment; computerized simulation; mathematical models
- Identifiers
- building systems; HVACSIM+ computer simulation package
- Abstract
- HVACSIM+ is a modular, non-proprietary computer simulation package developed at the National Bureau of Standards, designed to allow detailed simulation of entire building energy systems: the heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) system, the equipment control system, the building shell, the physical plant, and the dynamic interactions among these subsystems. The HVACSIM+ package consists of a main simulation program, a library of sub-routines containing mathematical models of building energy system components, and two programs used in preparing a description of the system to be simulated. Models representing the components of a physical plant, such as boilers and chillers, and a model representing a multizone building, are under development and will be added to the HVACSIM+ package as they become available.