Modular Energy Balance Program Including Subroutines for Greenhouses and Other Latent Heat Devices

摘要

A computer program is presented for simulating the thermal performance and the energy and water uses of greenhouses. The program is modular and has many subroutines, each of which simulates some energy-related device using energy balance techniques. This manual presents a modular energy balance model (MEB) which combines submodels of greenhouses with submodels of many other energy-related devices. The MEB model is versatile because the user can connect the submodels needed for particular heating and cooling systems at the time he or she runs the main MEB program.