[esp-r] Re: release of ESP-r version 11.2
Pueltz, Gunter
Gunter.Pueltz at MuellerBBM.de
Mon Nov 13 10:21:41 GMT 2006
Dear Ian,
you wrote that ESP-r version 11.2 provides several adjustments to EN 13791
(see below).
Concerning these enhancements following important question:
Is there an official certification for ESP-r, v11.2, available (e.g. from
ESRU), which GUARANTEES
that ESP-r completely satisfies the requirements of EN 13791 ?
Our clients are NOT interested in calculating several test-cases according
to EN 13791,
our clients (as well as our quality assurance system) require that we have
to use only a
certified zonal simulation tool according to EN 13791 - and we have to make
this evident
for our client by an official certificate of the software producer !
Currently we are running into more and more problems, because such a
required certificate
is not yet available for ESP-r ....... ?!?!
It would also help, if we could tell our clients, that this certificate will
be available in some month/
mid of 2007/end of 2007 .......????
Regards,
Gunter
--------------------------------------------
Dr.-Ing. Gunter Pültz
Müller-BBM GmbH
Robert-Koch-Str. 11
82152 Planegg bei München
Telefon +49 (89) 85602-336
Telefax +49 (89) 85602-111
http://www.mbbm.de <http://www.mbbm.de/>
email:plz at mbbm.de
-----Original Message-----
From: esp-r-bounces at lists.strath.ac.uk
[mailto:esp-r-bounces at lists.strath.ac.uk]On Behalf Of Beausoleil-Morrison,
Ian
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 7:54 PM
To: ESP-r mailing list
Subject: [esp-r] release of ESP-r version 11.2
Dear ESP-r users and developers,
Version 11.2 of the ESP-r system is now available. A summary of the changes
and new features included in this release is given at the bottom of this
e-mail.
The source code may be accessed via the ESP-r Central Subversion repository.
To do this, you must first install a Subversion client on your system. Free
clients are available at
<http://subversion.tigris.org/project_packages.html>
http://subversion.tigris.org/project_packages.html.
Once you have installed the Subversion client you can download the source
code for version 11.2 of ESP-r anonymously using the following command:
svn checkout <https://esp-r.net/espr/esp-r/trunk>
https://esp-r.net/espr/esp-r/trunk
OR
svn checkout <http://esp-r.net/espr/esp-r/trunk>
http://esp-r.net/espr/esp-r/trunk
If you previously downloaded version 11.1 with the above command, then you
do not have to do a full download of version 11.2. Rather, you can update
the source code with the following command:
svn update <https://esp-r.net/espr/esp-r/trunk>
https://esp-r.net/espr/esp-r/trunk
OR
svn update <http://esp-r.net/espr/esp-r/trunk>
http://esp-r.net/espr/esp-r/trunk
(ESP-r developers who wish to make source code contributions to ESP-r should
contact me directly so that we can configure an account for you on ESP-r
Central. Further information on ESP-r Central for developers is available
on the ESRU web site.)
ESP-r source code is available exclusively through ESP-r Central. However,
ESRU will continue to produce and post pre-compiled versions for specific
operating environments on its web site. These binary versions will
generally be made available within a few days of a source code release and
will be announced to this e-mail list. Release notes will also continue to
be posted on the ESRU web site.
Regards,
- Ian
Ian Beausoleil-Morrison
ESP-r Archivist
Natural Resources Canada
Release Notes
11.2 (November 2006)
====================
Generic Code Update
-------------------
- ESP-r can now be compiled using the gcc4/gfortran compiler set that
is shipped with many current Linux distributions. However, non-trivial
numerical differences have been found between ESP-r compiled with
gcc4/gfortran and ESP-r compiled with gcc3/g77. Consequently
gcc4/gfortran
builds should be considered beta for the time being.
- The 'Install' script has been redesigned to streamline the installation
process. A number of redundant user prompts have been removed and support
for compilations 'out of the box' has been improved for Sun cc/f90 and
MINGW.
- The 'Readme' file has been re-written to reflect recent changes to the
distribution and compilation of ESP-r, and to provide the user with more
information.
- The 'text-only' version of ESP-r was revived, allowing users to build
ESP-r
on environments on which neither X11 nor GTK is available.
Simulator
---------
- The treatment for half-hour centred solar data (such as found in CWEC
climate files) has been updated so that sub-hour simulations use the
appropriate interpolation. This affects only solar data.
- A small bug affecting insolation analysis has been corrected.
- A new plant component model of an adsorption storage unit has been added
and variants of existing plant components for water storage tanks,
pumps, pipes, and a new controller have been created to support the
modelling of adsorption storage systems. Interested users are referred
to the M.A.Sc. thesis of Maria Mottillo, which is available in the
'related
publications' section of the ESRU web site.
- A new plant component has been added for modelling solar thermal
collectors. Interested users are referred to a paper by Didier Thevenard,
Kamel Haddad, and Julia Purdy, which is available in the 'related
publications' section of the ESRU web site.
- A new boundary condition type has been added to the building thermal
domain to support the CEN 13791 standard. A treatment has also been added
to support the CEN 13791 approach for modelling surface convection.
(The CEN 13791 approach for treating solar absorption on the other side of
partitions will be added in a future release.) Numerous interface changes
have been incorporated to allow users to impose the CEN 13791 standard for
testing/validating projects.
Project Manager
---------------
- ISO 6946 U-values are now reported.
- Simulation presets can now support the integration of hourly results.
- The logic for flow component multi-sensor controllers has been reworked.
- Numerous changes have been made to improve program navigation and work
flow.
- Additional contextual help has been added, e.g. reporting of energy
balances, external pressure coefficients.
- There is increased use of GTK widgets to improve the operation of ESP-r
built with the GTK (versus the X11) libraries.
- The logic supporting optical property switching has been corrected and
extended.
- Improvements have been made to QA reports.
- Improvements have been made to the viewing of CFD domains and the feedback
provided to the user.
- A number of exemplar models have been improved.
- A bug caused problems when running models which included both pre-defined
simulation periods and a CFD domain. This has been repaired.
- A bug caused program crashes when a faulty zone fuzzy logic controller
was specified. This has been repaired.
- A facility has been added to allow the copying of infiltration/ventilation
and/or casual gains from other zones. Data can also be scaled by
zone volume or floor area.
- A bug related to the drawing of the site origin has been repaired.
- A new exemplar has been added with an abstract representation
of a heated floor and a chilled ceiling.
Quality Control Utility
-----------------------
- A number of bugs were repaired in the regression tester.
- New functionality has been added to the regression tester to help
diagnose differences between reference and test versions of ESP-r
and to compare run-time differences.
Additional Changes
------------------
- Many additional changes have been made that are transparent to the user.
Information on these, as well as further details on all the
above-mentioned
changes, can be found in ESP-r Central's change log by providing the
following URL to your web browser:
<https://esp-r.net/wsvn/espr/wsvn/esp-r/>
https://esp-r.net/wsvn/espr/wsvn/esp-r/.
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