Simstock

Simstock is a python package for taking geographical data, processing it into a form compatible with EnergyPlus, and running thermal simulations. SimStock thereby provides an intermediate layer between various data types and EnergyPlus, allowing UBEMs to be run straightforwardly from QGIS etc. The software performs the following setps:

1. Geometrical pre-processing. This ensures the input data is compatible with EnergyPlus.

2. The creation of thermal zone object data for EnergyPlus.

3. Running the simulation and handling the results.

Simstock is provided by Building Stock Lab within UCL’s Bartlett Energy Institute Bartlett Energy Institute.

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Contents:

• Installation
  • Installation from PyPI (recommended)
  • Installation for developers
• Usage and basic examples
  • Overview: reading in data and running a simulation
  • Data requirements
  • Reading different data formats
  • Working with the SimstockDataframe
  • Plotting data
  • Specifying weather data
  • Specifying schedules, materials, and constructions
  • Running a simulation
• Simstock QGIS Plugin Documentation
  • Installation, setup and testing
  • Using the plugin
  • Troubleshooting
  • Contact & feedback
  • Credit
• Simstock API docs
  • The simstock.SimstockDataframe class
  • The simstock.IDFmanager class
  • Data reading functions
  • The simstock.plot() function
• Instructions for developers
  • Running unit tests
  • Generating and modifying the docs
  • Updating the yaml file from poetry