Pre-Release v0.3

Variable and Class Description Changes

• PR #44 Building class refactored to Zone to prevent confusion
• solve_building_energy refactored to solve_energy
• solve_building_lighting refactored to solve_lighting
• PR #47 Zones are now defined as floor_area, room_vol, total_internal_area as opposed to room_width, room_height, room_depth

Upgrades

• PR #43 Github pipeline is set up to test for errors in code
• PR #45 Cooling emission system now working fully. Previously only a single emission system could be defined.
• PR #47 Can take non rectangular geometries as zones are now defined as floor_area, room_vol, total_internal_area as opposed to room_width, room_height, room_depth
• PR #46 external_envelope_area changed to walls_area which no longer includes the area of the windows. This allows for an easier definition of varying building surfaces with varying u_values. An example script can be found at examples/multiWall.py
• examples/annualSimulation will now raise an error if the user defines a window area on the zone that is different from the window area defined in the radiation script.

Bug fixes

• examples/annualSimulation_ImportRadiation had a if statement used in debugging that was not removed. It has now been deleted
• PR #38 In the event of no heating/cooling the COP is now set to nan
• PR #41 from Linus: fixed the bug that the direct irradiance factor was wrongly set to zero in case of tilted windows having an azimuth difference bigger 90° to the solar azimuth.

pre-release

Fully functional simulator, all tests passed. Still preparing documentation for pipy