<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dandan Zhu</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tianzhen Hong</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Da Yan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chuang Wang</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A Detailed Loads Comparison of Three Building Energy Modeling Programs: EnergyPlus, DeST and DOE-2.1E</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Building Simulation</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">building energy modeling program</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">building thermal loads</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">comparison</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">dest</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">DOE-2.1E</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">energyplus</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2013</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">09/2013</style></date></pub-dates></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tsinghua University Press</style></publisher><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">6</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">323-335</style></pages><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Building energy simulation is widely used to help design energy efficient building envelopes and HVAC systems, develop and demonstrate compliance of building energy codes, and implement building energy rating programs. However, large discrepancies exist between simulation results from different building energy modeling programs (BEMPs). This leads many users and stakeholders to lack confidence in the results from BEMPs and building simulation methods. This paper compared the building thermal load modeling capabilities and simulation results of three BEMPs: EnergyPlus, DeST and DOE-2.1E. Test cases, based upon the ASHRAE Standard 140 tests, were designed to isolate and evaluate the key influencing factors responsible for the discrepancies in results between EnergyPlus and DeST. This included the load algorithms and some of the default input parameters. It was concluded that there is little difference between the results from EnergyPlus and DeST if the input values are the same or equivalent despite there being many discrepancies between the heat balance algorithms. DOE-2.1E can produce large errors for cases when adjacent zones have very different conditions, or if a zone is conditioned part-time while adjacent zones are unconditioned. This was due to the lack of a strict zonal heat balance routine in DOE-2.1E, and the steady state handling of heat flow through interior walls and partitions. This comparison study did not produce another test suite, but rather a methodology to design tests that can be used to identify and isolate key influencing factors that drive the building thermal loads, and a process with which to carry them out.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></issue><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">323</style></section></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dandan Zhu</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tianzhen Hong</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Da Yan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chuang Wang</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Comparative research in building energy modeling programs</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">China Annual HVACR Conference</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">advanced building software: energyplus</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">building energy modeling program</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">building simulation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">comparison</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">dest</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">doe-2</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">energyplus</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">simulation research group</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">test</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">06/2011</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">China (in Chinese)</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dandan Zhu</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chuang Wang</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Da Yan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tianzhen Hong</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A Comparison of DeST and EnergyPlus</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">China HVAC Simulation Conference</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">building simulation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">comparison</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">dest</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">energy modeling</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">energyplus</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">simulation research</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">simulation research group</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">test cases</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2011</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2011</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Beijing</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record></records></xml>