COMIS-an international multizone -air-flow and contaminant transport model
Feustel, H. E.
1999 Energy and Buildings, 30 3-18
multizonne; air flow; modeling; model evaluation.
Feustel, H. E., (1999), "COMIS-an international multizone -air-flow and contaminant transport model", Energy and Buildings, 30 3-18.
Abstract:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Environmental Energy Technologies Divisiom Indoor Environment Deparhnent, Buil&ng 9a Room 3074,
Abstract
A number of interzonal models have been developed to calculate air flows and pollutant =sport mechanisms in both single and multizone buildings. A recent development in multizone air-flow modeling, the CONUS model, has a number of capabilities that go beyond previous models, much as CONUS can be used as either a stand-alone air-flow model with input and output features or as an infiltration module for thermal building simulation programs. CONHS was designed during a 12 month workshop at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in 1988-1989. In 1990, the Executive Committee of the International Energy Agency's Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems program created a working group on multizone air-flow modeling, which continued work on CONUS. The group's objectives were to study physical phenomena causing air flow and pollutant (e.g., moisture) transport in multizone buildings, develop numerical modules, to be integrated in the previously designed multizone air flow modeling system and evaluate the computer code. The workyng group supported by nine nations, officially finished in late 1997 with the release of RSiBat/COMIS 3.0, which contains the documented simulation program CONUS, the user interface HSiBat, and reports describing the evaluation exercise. This paper serves as an introduction for the other publications included in this Special Issue. Published by Elsevier Science S.A.