.AixLib.ThermalZones.HighOrder

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Overview

Package for standard house models, derived form the EBC-Library HouseModels.

Concept

The H library aims to provide standard models for one family dwellings (stand alone house), single apartments and multi-family dwellings consisting of several apartments. The particularity of this library lies in providing ready to use models for the dynamic simulation of building energy systems, while allowing for a degree of flexibility in adapting or extending these models to ones needs.

A library with models for standard houses as such does not yet exist. While at the moment the standard house models are tailor-made for the German market, it is possible to adapt them to other markets.

When developing the HouseModels library we followed several goals:

• develop standard models
• model only the necessary physical processes
• build a model so that changing the parameters is easy, quick and will not lead to hidden mistakes
• have an easy to use graphical interface
• ensure a degree of flexibility for expanding or building new models

We call these house models standard for the following reasons:

• the floor layouts were made based on existing buildings, by analyzing data provided by the German Federal Statistical Office and by consulting with experts
• for modeling realistical wall structures building catalogues as well as experts were consulted
• the physical properties of the materials for the wall layers were chosen to satisfy the insulation requirements of current and past German energy saving ordinances: WSchV 1984, WSchV1995, EnEV 2002 and EnEV 2009

References

Ana Constantin, Rita Streblow and Dirk Mueller The Modelica HouseModels Library: Presentation and Evaluation of a Room Model with the ASHRAE Standard 140 in Proceedings of Modelica Conference, Lund 2014, Pages 293-299. DOI: 10.3384/ECP14096293

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