SPARK Technical Reports 1999


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1999

LBL-44097
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NUMERICAL PERFORMANCE OF THE SPARK GRAPH-THEORETIC SIMULATION PROGRAM
Edward F. Sowell, California State University at Fullerton, and Philip Haves, LBNL.

LBL-42355
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pdf document 		SIMULATION MODEL: FINNED WATER-TO-AIR COIL WITHOUT CONDENSATION
M. Wetter, LBNL, January 1999.

LBL-42354
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pdf document 		SIMULATION MODEL: AIR-TO-AIR PLATE HEAT EXCHANGER
M. Wetter, LBNL, January 1999.

SPARK Mathematical Models for Portability and Interoperability, LBNL, 1999. (SPARK PowerPoint Presentation)

1996

LBL-39098
abstract only 		TWO- AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL NATURAL AND MIXED CONVECTION SIMULATION USING MODULAR ZONAL MODELS,
E. Wurtz, Laboratoire d'Etudes Pour la Thermique Appliquee au Batiment, Universite de la Rochelle, Rochelle, France, and J.-M. Nataf and F. C. Winkelmann, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA. July, 1996.

1995

LBL-37300
abstract only 		DEVELOPMENT OF A SIMULATION TOOL TO EVALUATE THE PERFORMANCE OF HYDRONIC RADIANT COOLING CEILINGS,
C. Stetiu, H. Feustel and F. Winkelmann, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA. June 1995.

EB-1
abstract only 		A DIRECT TRANSLATOR FROM NEUTRAL MODEL FORMAT TO THE SPARK SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT,
Jean-Michel Nataf, visiting researcher, Simulation Research Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA. Reprinted from Energy and Buildings 23 (1995) 131-139.

IBPSA95-1
abstract only 		HVAC COMPONENT MODEL LIBRARIES FOR EQUATION-BASED SOLVERS,
Edward F. Sowell, Dept of Computer Science, California State University at Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92634 and Michael A. Moshier, Dept of Mathematics and Computer Science, Chapman University, Orange, CA 92667. Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on System Simulation in Buildings, IBPSA Building Simulation '95, Madison, Wisconsin, August 14-16, 1995.