http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/SimRoof
	SimRoof
	Current Version Released Terms 0a0 in development GPL 3.0

SimRoof is a program to simulate the thermal performance of roofs through typical-meteorological-years. The initial version is targeted to hot humid climates in the tropics.

SimRoof is an application of the SCM Scheme implementation.

Documentation

• Introduction
  • Motivation
  • Prior Work
  • The Component Approach
  • Comfort
• Sites
  • Scope
  • Typical Meteorological Year
  • NSRDB: Typical Meteorological Year 3
    • Abbreviations
    • List of Class-I and Class-II Sites in Order of Increasing Latitude
  • Tropical Sites
    • Guam
    • Caribbean
    • Hawaii
  • Desert Sites
    • Sonoran Desert
    • Mojave Desert
• Weather
  • Wind
  • Ceiling
  • Cloudless Sky
  • Cloudy Sky
  • Atmospheric Transparency
• Net Radiative Transfer
  • Simulation Inputs
    • Solar Absorption
    • Upward Thermal Radiation
    • Downward Thermal Radiation
  • Simulation Strategy
  • Lambertian Model for the Tropics
  • Lambertian Model for Southwestern US Deserts
• Lambertian Perfromance Limits
  • Limit Cases
  • Perfect Lambertian in the Tropics
  • Perfect Lambertian in the Southwestern US Deserts
  • Analysis
• CoolRoof
  • Rating Council
  • Ratings
  • Analysis
  • Limit Cases
  • Optimization
  • Asphalt Roof in Guam
  • Simulating CoolRoof in Guam
  • Summary
• Convection Articles
  • Natural Convection Heat Transfer from an Isothermal Plate
  • Skin-Friction and Forced Convection from Rough and Smooth Plates
  • Turbulent Mixed Convection from an Isothermal Plate
  • Convection Measurement Apparatus and Methodology
  • Supplementary Data
• Solar Screen Model
  • Definitions
  • Convection
  • Thermal Conductance of Plane Air Space
  • Bounce Gain
  • Equilibrium
• Solar Screen Performance
  • Bi-Color
  • Chalmers
  • Tellurium
  • Nanocrystalline
  • Semiconductor
  • Covered CoolRoof
  • Granular Aluminum Coated Cover
  
  
• Thermal Infrared Optics (footnotes and supplemental information)
  • Blackbody Radiation
  • Materials in the Thermal-Infrared
    • Granular Materials
  • From "Optics for Passive Radiative Cooling"
  • Kirchhoff's Law of Thermal Radiation
  • Infrared Scattering
  • Infrared Scattering by Water Clouds

SimRoof Development

• Savannah: SVN Repository simroof
• Development Snapshot SimRoof.zip (10.MB)
• SimRoof discussion mailing list

Related Software

The FreeSnell Thin-Film Optical Simulator

Miscellany

The infrared atmospheric transparency spectra calculated by ATRAN[23] is at
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/users/jaffer/ATRAN.tgz (58.MB).