SE-99-06-2 -- Validation of Two French Building Energy Programs Part 1: Analytical Verification PDF

Two French building energy programs were developed by a French utility company. The first one is intended to produce economic studies and be used as a research tool. The second one is more dedicated to engineering offices as a tool adapted to their constraints in their thermal studies. To give confidence to the end-users and to ensure the quality of the software programs results, a validation procedure has been in place for many years. We have focused on the use with the first software of different analytical tests compiled in a report of an international organization dealing with energy savings. The analytical tests are very powerful in detecting inconsistencies if they exist, and the tests are easy to implement. In Part 2 of this paper, we present the empirical validation work carried out in the same organization as above: experimental sequence and application of a parameter estimation method to achieve a diagnostic on modeling error.

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