EnergyPlus: Creating a new-generation building energy simulation program

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 319-331

  Crawley, Drury B ^a   Lawrie, Linda K ^b   Winkelmann, Frederick C ^c   Buhl, W F ^c   Huang, Y Joe ^c   Pedersen, Curtis O ^d   Strand, Richard K ^d   Liesen, Richard J ^d   Fisher, Daniel E ^e   Witte, Michael J ^f   Glazer, Jason ^f  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY   (United States)

^b U S ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f GARD Analytics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ENERGY MANAGEMENT;

SOFTWARE PACKAGE ENERGYPLUS;

BUILDINGS;

EID: 0034825352     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-7788(00)00114-6     Document Type: Article

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