CHAMPS-BES Version 1 (2006) is Copyrighted by:

    Building Energy and Environmental Systems Laboratory (BEESL, http://beesl.syr.edu)
    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
    L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science (http://www.ecs.syr.edu)
    Syracuse University (http://www.syr.edu)
    149 Link Hall
    Syracuse, New York 13244-1240
    (Tel. 315-443-2341, Fax 315-443-9099)


About CHAMPS-BES Version 1:

The CHAMPS-BES (Coupled Heat, Air, Moisture and Pollutant Simulation 
in Building Envelope Systems) program has been developed during 2004-2006 
with funding support from research grants from U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Energy, Syracuse Center 
of Excellence in Energy and Environmental Systems, EQS-STAR Center/
New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research, 
and Syracuse University.

It is an outcome of a joint effort between BEESL/Syracuse University, 
U.S.A. and the Institute for Building Climatology/University of 
Technology Dresden (TUD), Germany.  The program has been built upon 
three foundations:

1.	Delphin 5, a heat and moisture (HAM) simulation program 
	developed by Mr. Andreas Nicolai and Dr. John Grunewald, 
	Building Energy and Environmental Systems Laboratory, 
	Syracuse University.  The program has significant improvement 
	over DELPHIN4 in terms of programming structure and user 
	interface while the core functionality of DELPHIN4 is also 
	available in Delphin 5. Most of the modules and algorithms 
	in DELPHIN4 have been re-implemented in Delphin 5 under the 
	new and improved program structure, which has also been 
	adopted in CHAMPS-BES. The CHAMPS-BES development is based 
	on the Delphin 5 source code dated summer 2004.

2.	DELPHIN4, a heat, air and moisture (HAM) simulation program 
	developed by Dr. John Grunewald and Mr. Heiko Fechner of the 
	Institute of Building Climatology, University of Technology 
	Dresden. Most of the functionality available in DELPHIN4 has, 
	been implemented in CHAMPS-BES.

3.	Research and developmental works conducted at BEESL/Syracuse 
	University including:
	1)	A model of gaseous and adsorbed pollutant transport 
		through building envelopes;
	2)	A one-way coupled model of airflow effects on the heat, 
		moisture and pollutant transport;
	3)	A database of material properties for heat and moisture 
		that include critically reviewed data from TUD, SU and 
		literatures;
	4)	A database of material properties for volatile organic 
		compounds (VOCs);
	5)	Testing and incorporation of an efficient solver for 
		integration of ordinary differential equation systems 
		(CVODE, developed by S.D. Cohen, A.C. Hindmarsh, 
		R. Serbin, D. Shumaker, and A.G. Taylor of the 
		Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, The Regents 
		of the University of California);
	6)	Small-scale environmental chamber experiments to 
		determine the material properties, and to provide 
		benchmark data for evaluating/validating the 
		simulation model;
	7)	Full-scale experiments using a coupled indoor/outdoor 
		environmental simulator (C-I/O-ES) to provide data for 
		evaluating/validating the model for typical residential 
		and commercial wall assemblies.

The CHAMPS-BES core development team in the years 2004 - 2006 included:

1)	Mr. Andreas Nicolai, Ph.D. Candidate and Research Assistant, 
	BEESL/SU: has been the chief developer for the software.  He 
	lead the effort on the software design and implementation, and 
	has authored a majority of the codes in CHAMPS-BES including 
	the new solver and user interface.  He is also the contact 
	point for incorporation of new program modules, and taught 
	other students/contributors how to write proper C++ module 
	for incorporation into the overall CHAMPS-BES program.
2)	Mr. Hui Li, Ph.D. Candidate and Research Assistant, BEESL/SU: 
	Lead the effort on developing the one-way coupled airflow and 
	VOC transport model, and implemented the module in C++ in an 
	earlier testing version of CHAMPS-BES as part of his Ph.D. 
	dissertation research.  He also lead the effort in the 
	full-scale chamber experiments to provide data for model 
	validation, and conducted sensitivity analysis for CHAMPS-BES.
3)	Mr. Mikael Salonvaara, Research Scientist and CHAMPS research 
	Team Leader of BEESL/SU: Managed and coordinated numerical 
	and experimental efforts and provided technical advises to 
	the CHAMPS-BES development, drawing his many years of 
	experience in developing the 3-D LATENITE-VTT program for 
	heat and moisture simulations.  He also leads the effort in 
	determining material properties for VOC transport and storage.
4)	Dr. John Grunewald, Research Associate Professor, BEESL/SU, and 
	Junior Professor and Principle Researcher of Institute of 
	Building Climatology at Dresden University of Technology: 
	Implemented climate, boundary, field and contact conditions 
	and the new VOC transport module in the CHAMPS-BES program.  
	He also provided and maintains a DELPHIN4 - Delphin 5 / CHAMPS 
	project conversion module and managed the relevant collaborative 
	activities at TUD before joining SU, and provided technical 
	advises to the CHAMPS-BES development, drawing his many years 
	of experience in developing the DELPHIN4 program for HAM 
	simulations.
5)	Dr. Jianshun "Jensen" S. Zhang, Professor and Director, 
	BEESL/SU: As the Faculty Advisor and Principle Investigator, 
	he is responsible for the overall scientific integrity and 
	quality of the research program.  He also provided technical 
	advises on VOC emissions and transport modeling and experiments, 
	and database development.

Other contributors to the CHAMPS-BES program included:

1)	Dr. Mark Bomberg, Research Professor and hygrothermal research 
	Team Leader of BEESL/SU: Provided valuable advises on material 
	characterization and testing for the determination of model 
	parameters in CHAMPS-BES;
2)	Mr. Marcin Pazera, Ph.D. Candidates and Research Assistant, 
	BEESL/SU: provided valuable suggestion on material data 
	collection/testing, and standardization for inputting to 
	CHAMPS-BES.  He also developed/setup testing methods and 
	apparatus at SU for measuring material properties for moisture 
	transport, and provided bench mark experimental data for model 
	evaluations;
3)	Mr. John MacKenzie, M.S. student and Research Assistant, 
	BEESL/SU: setup and conducted experiments to measure heat 
	conductivities of materials under moist conditions, and 
	provided benchmark data for model evaluations;
4)	Ms. Jing Xu, Ph.D. student and Research Assistant, BEESL/SU: 
	assisted in collecting and entering the material property 
	data file for VOC;
5)	Mr. Heiko Fechner, Researcher of the Institute for Building 
	Climatology at the University of Technology Dresden: shared 
	his experience in developing DELPHIN4, and provided relevant 
	DELPHIN4 program modules/library functions for inclusion in 
	CHAMPS-BES, developed the postprocessing module and assisted 
	in the post processor implementation in CHAMPS-BES;
6)	Mr. Gregor Scheffler, Ph.D. Candidate and Research Assistant 
	of the Institute for Building Climatology at the Technical 
	University of Dresden: provided substantial input to material 
	characterization, developed the material functions generation 
	module and assisted its implementation in CHAMPS-BES.
7)	Other faculty and graduate students who conducted beta testing 
	and provided helpful suggestions for new features, 
	functionality or user interface.

For more information, please contact:
	Andreas Nicolai (anicolai@syr.edu), 
	John Grunewald (jgrunewa@syr.edu), or 
	Jensen Zhang (jszhang@syr.edu).

August 2006