Dols, W.
, Shen, J.
, Polidoro, B.
, Lorenzetti, D.
, Mills, R.
, Cole, W.
and Sohn, M.
(2026),
Development and Application of CONTAM APIs, Building Simulation, [online], https://doi.org/10.1007/s12273-025-1376-x, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=960160
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Development and Application of CONTAM APIs
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, Jialei Shen, , David Lorenzetti, Russell Mills, William Cole, Michael Sohn
Abstract
A set of application programming interfaces (APIs) has been developed for the whole-building contaminant transport and airflow modeling software program, CONTAM. These APIs allow other simulation tools and programming environments to dynamically link to and run CONTAM models, and to interactively control their execution and query for simulation results. This new capability simplifies the use of CONTAM in co-simulation and opens possibilities for new transport models and analysis workflows. We present an overview and motivation of these APIs, and examples of their use, including a tool for estimating coupled outdoor and indoor transport of urban plumes.Citation
Building Simulation
Volume
19
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Journals
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Keywords
application programming interface (API), CONTAM, co-simulation, multizone modeling
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Created January 30, 2026, Updated April 21, 2026