A bibliography of available computer programs in the general area of heating, refrigerating, air conditioning, and ventilating

Under sponsorship of ASHRAE and TC-1.5 (Computer Applicatons), a bibliography of computer programs has been developed that inventories available software in the general area of heating, refrigerating, air conditioning, and ventilating. The bibliography contains annotated software abstracts for all sizes of computers (programmable calculators, microcomputers, minicomputers, and mainframes) and includes the topical areas of acoustics, computer-aided design, mechanical equipment design, energy and economic analyses, lighting, fire protection, heating and cooling load analyses, solar systems, weather data analyses, and other related topics. This paper reports on the one-and-a-half-year research effort that generated the data and searching system for the software bibliography.