Technical Synthesis Report

by Peter Warren
UK, Coventry, ECBCS, 2000, 38 pp., ISBN 1 902177 15 5

Contents

Background

• Introduction
• Origins of COMIS

Multizone Air Flow Modelling

Outline of COMIS

• Introduction
• Applied pressure distribution
• Air flow paths
• HVAC systems
• Schedules
• Contaminant transport
• Solution of equations

Evaluation

• Strategy
• Sensitivity Analysis

Analytical Evaluation

• Introduction
• EMPA Test Cases
• LESO and Politecnico di Torino Test Cases
• Outcome

Intermodel Comparison

• Introduction
• Comparisons
• Large openings
• Outcome

Experimental Comparison

• Introduction
• Building 1 - OPTIBAT experimental flat (France)
• Building 2 - Solar House (Japan)
• Building 3 - Family house (Japan)
• Building 4 - Three-storey office building (Switzerland)
• Building 5 - PASSYS Test Cell (Belgium)
• Building 6 - Single floor flat (Belgium)
• Building 7 - PASSYS test cell (Greece)
• Building 8 - Isolated test room (Greece)
• Building 9 - Italgas test house (Italy)

User Tests

• Introduction
• User Test 1
• User Test 2
• Outcome

COMIS Interfaces

• Introduction
• COMERL
• IISiBat

Continuing Work with COMIS

• Further developments
• Application of COMIS

Conclusions

References

Appendices

• Appendix 1:Participating Organisations
• Appendix 2: principal Annex 23 Reports
• Appendix 3: Other COMIS related publications
• Appendix 4: COMIS related web sites
• Appendix 5: Sources of information on models used for comparison