Welcome to the SIMPLE validation report

SIMPLE aims to be as reliable and transparent as possible. This report is a crucial piece of that effort.

Most of this report is automatically produced as part of SIMPLE's quality control protocols. This means that a new version of this document is produced every time a new version of SIMPLE is deployed. Even more, several of these tests are required for a new version to be deployed, meaning that; if any change reduced accuracy, these tests should prevent that change to ever be deployed.

Input Output reference

Find it HERE.

This documentation can give you an idea of what is and how SIMPLE works.

Validation reports

Algorithms in use

• Full apartment simulation - Comparison between SIMPLE and EnergyPlus
• Simple room (i.e., a box) - Comparison between SIMPLE and EnergyPlus
• Convection coefficient comparison - Comparison between SIMPLE and EnergyPlus
• Infrared Radiation incident on surfaces - Comparison between SIMPLE and EnergyPlus
• Incident solar radiation - Comparison between SIMPLE and EnergyPlus
• Infiltrations validation - Comparison between SIMPLE and EnergyPlus
• Heat transfer through walls - Comparison between SIMPLE and both Theoretical Equations and EnergyPlus
• Simple check to see whether SIMPLE and EnergyPlus are sampling weather files in the same way
• Daylight Coefficient validation - Comparison between SIMPLE and Radiance

Algorithms in development

• Algorithms used to estimate solar radiation based on cloud cover data