TY - CONF T1 - Mapping Hvac Systems for Simulation In EnergyPlus T2 - SimBuild 2012 IBPSA Conference Y1 - 2012 A1 - Tobias Maile A1 - Mangesh Basarkar A1 - James O'Donnell A1 - Philip Haves A1 - Kevin Settlemyre AB -

For building energy simulation tools to be accessible to designers, tool interfaces should present a conventional view of HVAC systems to the user, and then map this view to the internal data model used in the tool. The paper outlines a process that enables design engineers to create HVAC system representations using industry standard terminology and system, icon and typological representations and convert that unified representation into the format required by the whole building energy simulation tool EnergyPlus. This paper describes each stage of the conversion process, which involves transformations between the following representations: 1) engineer's representation, 2) component connectivity representation, 3) representation in the internal data model used in the Simergy graphical user interface for EnergyPlus, and 4) EnergyPlus representation.

The paper also describes mappings between these representations and the development of a rule-based validation and assignment framework required to implement that mapping. In addition, the paper describes the implementation of this process in Simergy.

JF - SimBuild 2012 IBPSA Conference CY - Madison, WI, USA U2 - LBNL-5565E ER - TY - CONF T1 - Development of a user interface for the EnergyPlus whole building energy simulation program T2 - IBPSA Building Simulation 2011 Y1 - 2011 A1 - Richard See A1 - Philip Haves A1 - Pramod Sreekanathan A1 - Mangesh Basarkar A1 - James O'Donnell A1 - Kevin Settlemyre JF - IBPSA Building Simulation 2011 CY - Sydney, Australia ER -