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Engineering Laboratory / Building Energy & Environment Division

NIST Multizone Modeling

CONTAM Tutorials

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Tutorials

  1. CONTAM Video Tutorials - Links to videos located in the NISTube video gallery are available here.
  2. Coupled Multizone-CFD Tutorial - Detailed documentation and example files guide you through the use of the CFD capabilities of CONTAM to perform both interior-zone coupling and exterior-zone coupling [ZIP file]. NOTE that you will need CONTAM version 3.0 or later, CFD0 Editor and WPC Translator software for this tutorial (available on the Software page).
  3. Simple Air Handling System (AHS) - Spreadsheet and CONTAM project demonstrates the Simple AHS algorithm [SimpleAHS_Algorithm_withDiagram.zip].
  4. contam-x-jr-ml - Matlab program demonstrating the CONTAM airflow calculation method for naturally-driven airflows. 
    The code is provided via the Mathworks file exchange [https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/181400-contam-x-jr-ml].  
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Created March 9, 2018, Updated July 16, 2025
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