Introduction

Estimated Time: 15 Hours including Exercises

Instructor: Prageeth Jayathissa

Reference: https://github.com/architecture-building-systems/RC_BuildingSimulator

The Objectives of this Course is to build your own building simulation engine from scratch. By doing so you will learn to

• Solve thermodynamic problems using electrical analogies
• Solve simple differential equations
• Represent a building in a resistance / capacitance model
• Model solar radiation

By the end, you should be able to build this

Prerequisites are:

1) Basic knowledge of Python. See 13 hour tutorial here

Required Tools

1) A python 2 distribution https://www.python.org/ 2) Python plugins

• Numpy http://www.numpy.org/
• Matplotlib https://matplotlib.org/index.html

• Pandas http://pandas.pydata.org/

  These could be managed using anaconda for simplicity https://anaconda.org/

3) A good text editor. I recommend sublimetext2 https://www.sublimetext.com/

Optional

1) Jupyter Notebooks http://jupyter.org/ Jupyter will make your code easier to handle when learning