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[EnergyPlus_Support] Re: About Ground Temperatures



Linda, 

May I ask another question regarding the SLAB programme? 

In the 'Lecture 24: Ground Heat Transfer' file Page 24, it siad 'run the building in E+ with an insulated slab or as a partition to obtain monthly inside temperatures', and these temperatures will be needed in the slab programme. I have two zones on the groung floor, which zone I should read for the inside temperatures or should I build a single zone on ground floor for ground temperature cal purpose? Or my approach is completely wrong? 

Many thanks. 

Yuan 

--- In EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Linda Lawrie <linda@...> wrote:
>
> By the way, the Slab program is really for conditioned spaces.
> 
> What you may wish to do is look at the "other 
> side coefficients" model.  This is described in 
> the IOref as well as the example file 
> GroundTempOSCCompactSched.idf  Another feature is 
> to have a core and perimeter set of temperatures 
> -- that is not shown in the example files but can 
> be done using a "door" in the floor with one set 
> of temperatures where the slab floor (perimeter) 
> sees a different set.  Some of this is also 
> described in the Auxiliary Programs document on Ground Heat Transfer.
> 
> Here you would set your slab as a surface that 
> sees temperatures on the other side that may be 
> more realistic for you.  You would still need to 
> estimate the temperatures used but you may be 
> able to "play" with those temperatures more 
> easily and get your measured(?) temperatures inside more realistically.
> 
> Ground heat transfer is a real bugaboo for 
> simulation -- one can make the results be almost 
> anything you want (or don't want) by setting 
> ground temperatures too low or too high.
> 
> Linda
> 
> 
> At 03:26 PM 5/12/2008, Daniel Solís wrote:
> >Hi E+
> >
> >I have problems understanding Ground Temperatures:
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>




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