Mitchal Dichter
Energy Consultant
Introduction
I work as a consultant in the energy industry creating EnergyPlus models for clients and automating the generation of thousands to millions of building models, their simulation, and performance analysis. If you need EnergyPlus modeling for a project, support learning EnergyPlus, or as needed technical assistance, you can contact me at mitchaldichter@beminstructionals.com or view the BEM Instructionals consulting section of my website.
My career in the energy industry started at the UC Davis Western Cooling Efficiency Center (WCEC) in 2017. My work at the WCEC was focused on behind the meter energy usage and efficiency technologies. The main project I worked on was to generate millions of EnergyPlus models from parametrically combining different energy efficiency technologies on different commercial building types in multiple climate zones, running them all on a UC Davis compute cluster. Other projects I worked on included modeling a novel ground source heat pump in Python and co-simulation with an EnergyPlus building model, wrote linear programming models of electric utility tariffs for optimization of battery control in buildings using the Python PuLP package, and determining the building construction components that made phase change materials effective. I also worked at a battery startup with an electrochemistry geared toward grid energy storage and was head hunted by Energy Exemplar to work on their energy market simulation engine PLEXOS as a developer.
MSc Applied Mathematics | BS Computer Science
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GitHub Projects
BEM Instructionals
This is my consulting business for EnergyPlus, which you probably found via the BEM File Editor open-source software I created and maintain for modifying EnergyPlus *.idf files. If this is what you were looking for when you found this page, the BEM Instructionals website has a lot more resources, such as the BEM File Editor installers for the latest version.
If you are interested in contracting with me through my LLC, you can contact me at mitchaldichter@beminstructionals.com or view the BEM Instructionals consulting section of my website.
Strogatz Errata
I am the author of the solution manuals for the second and third editions of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos by Steven H. Strogatz. I also manage the reported errata for both the main textbooks and the solution manuals. In case you found this page while looking for the errata page, here is a Strogatz Errata page link.
If you have found errata to report for one of the textbooks or solution manuals, please use info@mitchaldichter.com to contact me.
Maths Survival Guide
If you found this page looking for the Maths Survival Guide, click the previous link to go to the main page. If you believe you found an error, please send me an email at info@mitchaldichter.com with the specifics.
This is a passion project of mine. It's a website and a bunch of YouTube videos for an Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations course, and some other topics. When I worked at UC Santa Barbara, I really enjoyed helping students with their lower division maths courses, from a first course in calculus to differential equations. One thing students always asked for is online resources to supplement their courses. The resources exist, but they can be difficult to find, spread out across multiple places, and many of the things on the internet are just plain wrong! I don't work at UC Santa Barbara anymore, but I still like making educational materials for the common STEM maths courses. Hopefully some students out there find what I've made useful.
Contact
Please use mitchaldichter@beminstructionals.com for inquiries about the BEM File Editor and consulting for EnergyPlus.
Use info@mitchaldichter.com for everything else.