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Graphs of hourly and daily values have to be defined before the simulation process. You can define up to 30 different plots (including about ten already defined by default).

Procedure

Four kinds of plots are proposed:

-        For each of them, you have to chose Daily or Hourly values, and the units.

-        Time evolution, you will define the parameter to be accumulated, and the time interval (which may be different from the simulation period).

-        Scatterplot allows to show the dependence of one parameter on another one (for example: Input/Output diagram). You must define the parameter for each axis, as well as the analysis period.

-        Values distribution will plot values as an histogram. Apart from the physical parameter to be used, you have to define the starting, the width and the number of classes ("bins"). In the first class, you may impose a threshold to eliminate, for example, null values at night.

 These definitions depend on the range of values taken by the parameter, which has to be known à priori. In case of doubt, you can confidently ask for a larger range (up to 400 bins) as the programme will automatically truncate the empty classes below and above.

 The accumulation can take place either in time (number of hourly or daily occurrences), or in energy.

-        Ordered values are histograms in which each class accumulates all lower values, and therefore give the distribution of values lower than a given value. The necessary definitions are the same as those for histograms.

-        Please also give a name, which will be the plot title in outputs. You can use the button at the right to produce an automatic plot name.

Models

The user has the opportunity of saving the definition of each plot in a library, to reuse it in other projects.

Please note that the definitions of histograms will have to be updated according to the size of each system. However the  histograms defined as default are automatically updated.