which reads input and writes output as text files. EnergyPlus calculates
the cooling and heating loads necessary to maintain the thermal
control set points, conditions throughout the secondary HVAC system
and coil loads, and the energy consumption of the primary
plant equipment. Many of the simulation characteristics, capabilities,
and features of EnergyPlus have been inherited from the
legacy programs of BLAST and DOE-2 [52].
jEPlus is a building energy simulation manager tool which has
been developed by Yi Zhang in 2009 to manage the complex parametric
analysis, explore alternative design options, and establish
dependencies between design variables using EnergyPlus [53,54].
jEPlus assists building designers to set up the parametric study
with an EnergyPlus model and to perform the simulations in a parallel
mode.