[Bldg-sim] IDA - ICE

[M F A Ramadan]

Dear All:

I didn't use TRNSYS, IDA-ICE or ESP-r before, so that i am asking a question:

Can any one of these softwares simulate an outdoor env. (buildings, plants,
materials ...) same time it can simulate the indoor env., i.e. to generate an
outdoor meteorology to be used as an ambient for thermal and energy analysis in
buildings?

Any guide would be appreciated.

Regards,
Mohamad.



Quoting leen peeters <l.f.r.peeters at gmail.com>:

> Dear all,
> 
> a few years ago I was checking which program to use for my PhD research. I
> ended up with 3: TRNSYS, IDA-ICE and ESP-r. I was used to TRNSYS, but did
> want to check the others before making a final choice.
> I tested IDA-ICE, and my aim was to model both existing and non-existing
> plant systems in a given building. The main issue was that IDA_ICE is not
> open-source. And however Per and his collegues are willing to help, it
> remains commercial software developped and maintained by a small commercial
> company. I finally opted for ESP-r, because of its active development
> community. The mian thing is that you have to go into the code, but that
> will be the case for all non-standard plant simulations. Unless the
> hydraulics are not important. In that case you could easily work out a
> model using the equation writers in TRNSYS.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Leen
> 
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Andy Stone <andy.stone at bdsp.com> wrote:
> 
> >  Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > I am also interested in hearing about the capabilities of IDA ICE, in
> > particular whether its plant modelling capabilities are as good as they
> look
> > on the website.  I’ve been using EnergyPlus to do some plant modelling
> > recently and it seems that while it works fine for fairly standard
> systems,
> > as soon as you try to simulate something a bit novel it struggles and
> often
> > fails to converge.  How does ICE’s plant modelling compare to something
> like
> > TRNSYS?
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >
> >
> > Andy
> >
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