Holly,<div><br></div><div>In EnergyPlus, you could implement a model for the user behavior using either the Energy Management System or the Building Controls Virtual Test Bed. The Building Controls Virtual Test Bed would allow you to implement the user behavior model either in MATLAB, Simulink, Modelica, Ptolemy or in your custom program, and link it during run-time to EnergyPlus so they can exchange data as the simulation progresses. It is available from <a href="https://gaia.lbl.gov/bcvtb">https://gaia.lbl.gov/bcvtb</a><br>
<br></div><div>All the best,</div><div><br></div><div>Michael Wetter</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Paul Carey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul@zed-uk.com">paul@zed-uk.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">You
can use an external file within a schedule to model say occupancy. If you had
data that told you the level of occupancy for each room for each hour of the
day, etc then you can bring that file into the EnergyPlus model within a
schedule for occupancy and hence it would allow you to model it exactly if necessary.
Then using the Parametric tools that E+ offers, you could then change a
variable at a time (that would be my preference, even though you can do more
than 1 at a time) to then work out the effects of those variances and the link
to occupancy and effectiveness, etc.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">ESP-r
will probably run faster than E+ which will be useful if your models are large.
Both are difficult to work in.</span></p>
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[mailto:<a href="mailto:bldg-sim-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">bldg-sim-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>holly
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<b>Sent:</b> 09 April 2010 14:47<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Bldg-sim] ESPr vs. E+ for occupant behavior research</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><span style="color:black">I am studying the impacts of occupant behavior on the success of
various building technologies, such as natural ventilation, radiant ceilings,
phase-change materials, automatic lighting controls, demand-controlled
ventilation, etc. using whole building energy simulation. I am wondering
whether to use EnergyPlus or ESP-r. An advantage of ESP-r seems to be the
SHOCC module, which seems to offer a great deal of flexibility for manipulating
occupant behavior, including stochastic processes. However an advantage of
EnergyPlus seems to be its extensive HVAC libraries so that I can actually
model energy use instead of loads. I am wondering if the EnergyPlus Runtime
Language (ERL) (described in Ellis, Torcellini, Crawley 2007) would offer the
opportunity for a similar level of occupancy control via simple programming. I
would appreciate any advice on the appropriateness of each software for this
research. </span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><span style="color:black">Thanks in advance!</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><span style="color:black">Holly</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><span style="color:black">Holly Wasilowski</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><span style="color:black">Doctoral Student in Sustainable Design</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><span style="color:black">Harvard Graduate School of Design</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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