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DOE Building energy software directoryにソフトウェア掲載されるまでの経緯。覚え書き。

Popolo Pshychrometricsの場合

20089月  英語化する。英語のマニュアルも作成する。かなりいい加減な英訳。
2008
93日  下記のメールをDrury Crawleyに送る。  これといった返信はない。
2008
914日  DOE Building energy software directoryが更新される。  1件の新しいソフトウェアが追加されたが、自分のものではない。  その後、2008年の9/22, 9/24, 9/252009年の3/18, 3/20にソフトウェアの追加が行われた模様。
2009
323日  めでたくソフトウェアが掲載。  しかし、特に掲載について先方からお知らせは無し。
メールをしてから掲載されるまで全部で半年ほどかかった。 内容について一応の審査があるためか、あるいは忙しかったのかわからない。

//*****メールここから*****
Dear Mr/s Drury Crawley, Program Manager, Building Energy Tools
My name is Eisuke Togashi and I’m doctor course student in Waseda University, Japan. I am emailing you because I'd like to introduce my software to DOE Building energy software directory. I'd appreciate it if you could check our software. Information about our software is described below.
Thanks regards.
// Images I attached 3 jpg files.
// Description The name of software is "PUtility Psychrometric". It is utility software which calculates moist air state and draw psychrometric chart. User can plot their data on chart by giving value of dry-bulb temperature and absolute humidity through CSV formatted file. It can give a graphic representation of comfortable air state with drawing region which PMV takes specific value. Diagram can be exported to vector image file (EMF). "PUtility Psychrometric" is released under GPL, and all the source codes can be freely downloaded from web site.
//Expertise Required Basic knowledge about moist air properties.
//Validation Calculation result of PMV and PPD are verified with the BASIC code given in ISO 7730. Calculation result of moist air properties are compared to value calculated by HVACSIM.
//Users About 40 copies downloaded since March 2008
//Audience Engineers work at consulting corporation or university students.
//Input Graphical user interface is provided.
//Output It can export EMF formatted image of psychrometric chart and export psychrometric table to CSV formatted file.
//Computer Platform Windows. .NET Framework 2.0 is required to run software.
//Programming Language C#
//Keywords Moist air, Psychrometric chart, GPL, Free source
//Strengths Since it released under GPL license, user can freely change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs.
//Weaknesses It hasn't been long since released, there may be still some bugs.
//Contact Affiliation : Waseda University Address : 3-4-1 Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan Telephone : 813-5292-5083 E-mail : e.togashi@gmail.com, togashi@tanabe.arch.waseda.ac.jp Website : http://gf.hvacsimulator.net
//Availability Latest version and source code can be downloaded from website. http://gf.hvacsimulator.net/gf/project/popoloutility/frs/
//Country Japan
//Categories Utility Evaluation, Indoor Air Quality
//*****
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Popolo.Utility.LoadCalculationの場合

20093月  BESTESTによる熱負荷計算結果のテスト。適合率を90%超にする。
2009
326日  下記のメールをDrury Crawleyに送る。  やはり、これといった返信はない。
2009
43日  ソフトウェアが掲載。  前回と違い1週間で掲載される。  同時に掲載されたソフトウェアは1件だったので2件のソフトウェアのために更新してくれたことになる。
前回よりも遙かに早く掲載されたのはBESTESTを行ったおかげか、あるいは2回目だったので審査が緩かったのか。
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メールここから***** Dear Mr/s Drury Crawley, Program Manager, Building Energy Tools
My name is Eisuke Togashi and I'm a research associate in Waseda University, Japan. I'd like to introduce my software to DOE Building energy software directory. I'd appreciate it if you could check our software. Information about our software is described below.
Thanks regards.
// Images Since it's a DLL (dynamic link library), has no image.
// Description “Popolo.Utility.LoadCalculation” is a collection of classes for calculating various heat transfer phenomena. The routines have been written from scratch in C#, and present a modern Applications Programming Interface (API) for .NET Framework programmers, allowing wrappers to be written for very high level languages. It contains classes for calculate solid conduction, convective heat transfer near wall surfaces, air ventilation, radiative heat balance of wall surfaces, transmitted solar radiation through a window, and so on. Users should build up these classes to simulate a whole complex building system. A sample source code to build test cases of BESTEST are provided. Since all the source code is distributed under the GNU General Public License, they can be freely downloaded from web site.
//Expertise Required Basic knowledge about heat transfer theory.
//Validation The calculation result was tested by IEA BESTEST. The program shows reasonable agreement with the reference programs for both the absolute results and sensitivity results. 97.4% (151/155) of the absolute results and 80.9% (127/157) of the sensitivity results pass the tests. The result and the source code to perform the BESTEST can be downloaded from web site.
//Users Total downloaded numbers were counted since April 2009.
//Audience Engineers work at consulting corporation or university students.
//Input No graphical user interface is provided.
//Output It depends on user.
//Computer Platform Windows or Linux. .NET Framework 2.0 or Mono is required to run software.
//Programming Language C#
//Keywords Heat transfer, load calculation, BESTEST, GPL, Free source
//Strengths Since it released under GPL license, user can freely change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs.
//Weaknesses It hasn't been long since released, there may be still some bugs.
//Contact Affiliation : Waseda University Address : 3-4-1 Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan Telephone : 813-5292-5083 E-mail : e.togashi@gmail.com Website : http://gf.hvacsimulator.net
//Availability Latest version and source code can be downloaded from website. http://gf.hvacsimulator.net/gf/project/popoloutility/frs/
//Country Japan
//Categories Energy Simulation, Load Calculation, Utility Evaluation
//*****
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