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The Coupling of ESP-R and Genopt: A Simple Case Study

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OSTI ID:988075
This paper describes and demonstrates how to use the optimization program GenOpt with the building energy simulation program ESP-r. GenOpt, a generic optimization program, minimises an objective function that is evaluated by an external simulation program. It has been developed for optimization problems that are computationally expensive and that may have nonsmooth objective functions. ESP-r is a research oriented building simulation program that is well validated and has been used to conduct various building energy analysis studies. In this paper, the necessary file preparations are described and a simple optimization example is presented.
Research Organization:
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
Environmental Energy Technologies Division
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231
OSTI ID:
988075
Report Number(s):
LBNL-3888E
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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