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[EnergyPlus_Support] interior walls in a one zone model



Dear community

I am a little confused about internal walls. For a 1 zone model of a single family building I want to introduce the internal walls in order to correctly account for their thermal inertia.

What is the correct way to input an interior wall within a zone?
Can / should I use the object Wall:Adiabatic?

The interior wall consists of three layers: plaster/insulation/plaster

The I/O reference of energyplus confuses me a little: On page 176 it says to the object Walls:Detailed:
"Only the inside face of the surface will exchange heat with the zone (i.e. two adiabatic surfaces are required to model internal partitions where both sides of the surface are exchanging heat with the zone)."

On page 156 on Walls:Adiabatic it says:
"Regardless of location in the building, the "full" construction (all layers) is used."

Any help is very much appreciated.

Kind regards
Niko Heeren





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