Hello,
I am fairly new to the building energy simulation field and am in a Building Systems Masters Program. I am looking for a research topic for my program thesis and am very interested in centering it around energy model optimization. One idea I had was to compare the different solutions I get from various optimization programs (GenOpt vs. Honeybee/LadyBug vs. jEplus). I would analyze the optimal solutions that each program gives and try to determine why the programs may give those solutions.
Would this be a sensible research topic? What obstacles would you imagine I would face? Any other research topics/avenues I should research instead? I am fairly open to a topic, but again, would prefer it to center around an optimization problem.
