Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] For Help! To simulate a skyscraper.

[Philip Haves <phaves@xxxxxxx>]

Try modeling representative floors and using multipliers for those, e.g.

Floor 10 *20
Floor 30 *20
Floor 50 *20
Floor 70 *20

well_kong wrote:

> I was assigned to simulate a skyscraper with 80 floors using EP.
> I tried multiplier,but there is a differential load between different
> high floors. For example,there will be about 0.6 C between 20m high.
> And for so many floors,the gap cann't be ignored.
> If I simulated every floors,It's really a huge job especially with a
> HVAC system.And the time of simulation also is a problem.
> Who could help me? Is there any other way to shortcut the work.
>
> Well Kong
>
>  


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