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[EnergyPlus_Support] Does the infiltration flow rate in EnergyPlus corrected for wind speed ?

When I last attempted to convert DOE-2.1E input files to EnergyPlus about five years ago, 
a coworker and I found a consistent 30% or so increase in the infiltration rate calculated 
by EnergyPlus as compared to DOE-2, which we ultimately tracked down to the fact that the 
infiltration model in DOE-2 was using the adjusted wind speed for terrain factors, while 
the infiltration model in EnergyPlus was using the unadjusted wind speed from the weather 
file. Therefore,
to obtain the same amount of infiltration in both models, we adjusted the input 
infiltration flow rate in EnergyPlus by a correction factor for the terrain, somewhere 
around 0.648 for the assumed terrain condition.  Is that still necessary today, or is the 
infiltration model in EnergyPlus now also using the corrected wind speed rather than the 
raw wind speed from the weather file (most often measured at an airport) ?

Thanks for any information on this.

Joe

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