Use of annual profiles of hourly data for analyzing DOE-2 building simulation program results

Conference · Mon Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1987

OSTI ID:5617189

Haberl, J; MacDonald, M; Eden, A

This paper presents an approach for improving potential building energy analyses using the DOE-2 computer program. The approach makes use of the ability to generate hour-by-hour data results from DOE-2 simulations, and uses a plotting package to generate 3-dimensional annual profiles of the hour-by-hour data for specific quantities of interest. The annual profiles of hourly data provide a graphical check of voluminous data in a condensed form allowing several different types of data to be plotted over a year. These profiles provide the user the opportunity to: check simulation results, check potential problems with simulations, provide graphs to customers who may want a simpler presentation, visualize interactions in simulations, and understand where weak areas may exist in simulations. Future analysis, using such profiles, may allow methods to be developed to check consistency between simulations, check for potential errors in modeling buildings, and better understand how simulations compared with data from real buildings. 14 refs., 24 figs.

• Research Organization: Management Information Support, Denver, CO (USA); Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA); Rockwell International Corp., Golden, CO (USA). Rocky Flats Plant
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP03533
• OSTI ID: 5617189
• Report Number(s): RFP-4164; CONF-880128-4; ON: DE88005338
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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