Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] zoning

[Linda Lawrie <linda@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>EnergyPlus Documentation is searchable.  Open EPlusMainMenu.idf and 
>press the "search" button.

Putting "zoning" in the search leads to a good article in Gettting 
Started (page 31 of the PDF).

There are several philosphies about zoning, there is not necessarily 
a "right" answer.  For example, if each story has a large floor area, 
you may want to zone it with perimeter zones and a central/core 
zone.  (Our "5Zone" example files illustrate this).   On the other 
hand, you may be able to zone each floor as a single zone.  The 
inaccuracies introduced are discussed in the section I mentioned in 
GettingStarted.   And you may be able to use zone/group multipliers 
so that you would only have to describe one interior story and the 
exterior/roof story.

It does depend a lot on what kind of answers you want from the simulation.


Linda

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