Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] Grid shading

[fred buhl <wfbuhl@xxxxxxx>]

Great answer Andy!

Andy Tindale wrote:

>Alexandre
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>You can achieve your 'Grid shading' by placing 10 x 6cm wide X 60cm high
>Windows side-by-side, each window having 2 sidefins (1 vertical shading
>device each side of each window) and 10 louvres (horizontal blades evenly
>spaced).
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>This is very simple to set up using DesignBuilder - just draw one window of
>the correct size, clone it nine times and set up the appropriate external
>shading device.
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>I have put together a simple example grid shading DesignBuilder file - if
>you're interested in seeing it please let me know and I will send it to you.
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>Andy
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>Subject: [EnergyPlus_Support] Grid shading
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>Dear all,
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>I'm trying to model a shaded façade. It's a south facing façade with an
>external shading. The external shading is a mesh of 6 x 6cm squares
>with 4cm depth, one meter apart from the outer façade surface.
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>At first I thought about using two blinds, one vertical and one
>horizontal blind postioned one after the other, but I realised that I
>can only use one shading device per window.
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>I could try to model the grid as an equivalent shading device, but I
>think that this is not so easy to do (determining the grid's radiation
>properties), and on the other hand the main scope of the model is to
>model the actual grid.
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>Thank you very much for yout time, best regards,
>Alexandre
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