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RE: [EnergyPlus_Support] zone geometry
mohit,
You should break up that wall into separate surfaces that each conform to the different zones.
If you set the outside face to ExteriorEnvironment, then your wall is not going to be "adiabatic". The closest you can come to adiabatic (with boundary conditions) is to set the outside face to "otherzonesurface" and then use the name of the surface itself as the "Outside Face Environment Object." Note that this surface is still modeled with thermal mass and is not really "adiabatic" ; it will store and release heat if the interior temperature changes as with setup/setback. You could also set an interior layer of the wall to an unrealistic, extremely low conductance if you really want to emulate "Adiabatic."
Brent
[Griffith, Brent]
-----Original Message-----
From: Mohit Mehta [mailto:mohitmehta1@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 8:23 PM
To: EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [EnergyPlus_Support] zone geometry
season's greetings all.
i have a 5-story building. the exterior wall is adjacent to 11 zones (2 on each floor plus the atrium). i am modeling this wall as adibatic as i am only modeling a certain section of the building. my question is - can i enter it as one wall or do i have to break it up into 11 smaller walls (one with each zone)? if i can enter it as one wall then what should my input for "InsideFaceEnvironment" be since eplus allows only one option? OutsideFaceEnvironment is ExteriorEnvironment, which shouldn't matter as it is adibatic.
thanks,
~mohit
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