[EnergyPlus_Support] Re: Customized Weather File

["nirajpoudel@xxxxxxxxx" <nirajpoudel@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is perfect. Thank you Brent. 

--- In EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Griffith, Brent" <brent.griffith@...> wrote:
>
> See the AuxiliaryPrograms.pdf documentation, starting on page 45 (60 absolute):
> "Items shown in bold are used directly in the EnergyPlus program."
> 
> From: EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of nirajpoudel@...
> Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 2:28 PM
> To: EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [EnergyPlus_Support] Customized Weather File
> 
> 
> 
> Dear Eplus users,
> 
> I am curious to know what fields in the weather file are mandatory for a simulation to run. Is there a bare minimum of parameters that are required from the weather file for Energyplus to run a rudimentary simulation. I.e
> 
> 1) Can I do without the Extraterrestrial Horizontal, Normal and Infrared Radiation parameters, total sky cover, opaque sky cover? Can I set them all to Zero?
> 
> 2) Secondly, by setting those parameters to Zero, will it severely affect the heat loss from the building at night, while using the Conduction Finite Difference algorithm?
> 
> The reason I ask these questions because I would like to model the same building with PCM in Abaqus. In order to compare the results I would like to create a very rudimentary weather file that I can input manually in Abaqus as well. Any help will be deeply appreciated.
> 
> Thanking you,
> Niraj Poudel
> Clemson University
>




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