Welcome to the help for THERMOS. You can search the help if you know what you are looking for:
1 Introductory materials
- Introduction
- If you have no idea what THERMOS is, this introduction might help
- Quick start overview
- If you want a quick walkthrough of how to use THERMOS, this may help
- Changelog
- A history of changes to the THERMOS application
2 Help using the program
- Creating maps
- Explains the different options for creating THERMOS maps from OpenStreetMap or your own GIS data
- Designing heat networks
- Explains the user interface for the heat network editor
3 Help about model details
- Network model calculations
- Explains what THERMOS is calculating when it evaluates a network.
- Heat demand estimation method
- Explains how heat demand estimates are made
- Network optimisation formulation
- A technical description of how the network optimisation works
4 Help about data
- Data used to make THERMOS
- Explains what data we used to build the models in THERMOS
- Index of parameters
- Describes all the different kinds of data you might need to put into THERMOS to use it effectively, how the model uses it, and suggestions where to find information
- List of references
- Links to places where you can read more about the concepts THERMOS uses