Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] simulation time step

["Michael J. Witte" <mjwitte@xxxxxxxx>]

What kind of differences are you seeing?  They should be small, and 
hourly results should be very similar.  The hourly weather data is 
interpolated for shorter time steps.

On 3 Feb 2003, at 14:50, Adriana Angelotti wrote:

> Hello everybody,
> 
> I'm trying to reproduce some experimental data on a free floating
> building with an Energy Plus simulation. I see that using different
> time steps (10m, 15m, 30m and 1h) produces different results.
> 
> So I wonder if there is some general consideration that can be used in
> the choice of the proper time step, besides the one I found on EP
> manual (15 minutes for a simulation without HVAC and 10m for a
> simulation with HVAC).
> 
> Besides this, I wonder what is the meaning of a simulation with a time
> step shorter than 1h, if the weather data time step is 1h.
> 
> 
> I would appreciate your help.
> Thank you
> 
> Adriana Angelotti
> 
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