Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] Re: Earth tubes and airflownetwork

["Edwin Lee" <leeed2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

Kristin:

I didn't look into the full simulation results, but just for kicks, I took the E+ example file AirflowNetwork_SimpleHouse, and added an earth tube to the Living Zone.  E+ ran fully without any errors or warnings. 

Again, the results may be funny, but I would think if anything had gone wrong, E+ would have complained.  The earth tube is set up simply as zone equipment.  The earth tube will not directly interact with the airflow network, but they will both be accounted for in the zone heat balance calculations.

Edwin

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Kristin Field <fieldkm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Clarification: could they both be used on the same zone if one was
scheduled to operate during the summer and the other during the winter
(i.e., same zone, but not same time)? I have a feeling the answer is
no, but I thought I should check here just in case.

--- In EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Kristin Field"

<fieldkm@...> wrote:
>
> It seems to me from the way that the earth tube model is set up that
> it is probably not possible to use earth tubes and the airflownetwork
> on the same zone. Am I correct about that? If it is possible to do
> both, does anyone have any guidance as to how?
>
> Thanks,
> Kristin
>

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