Dear Linda, Jeremiah, and Griffith
Thank you very much for your answers.
Unfortunately my central question remains a little unclear to me:
What kind of surface should I use in order to account for the thermal inertia of an interior wall in a single zone model?
Should I use Wall:Detailed or BuildingSurface:Detailed object? What would I choose as "Outside Boundary Condition"?
I was considering the Internal Mass object before, but decided not to use it, because it will not appear in the graphical (dxf) representation and I guess it might falsify the solar gains.
Thank you again!
Kind regards
Niko
--- In EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Linda Lawrie wrote:
>
> At 10:48 AM 1/11/2013, Jeremiah Crossett wrote:
> >My understanding was that if the boundary condition was "zone" that
> >it store and release heat and would have the same air temp as the
> >actual-zone. And that "surface" boundary condition would have a
> >mock-surface with the same radiant temp as the surface.
>
> Boundary conditions of "zone" and "surface" are really
> identical. "Zone" tells the EnergyPlus engine to figure out and
> create a surface in the adjacent zone of like characteristics of the
> surface. "Surface" is similar except the user creates the surface in
> the adjacent zone.
>
> Adiabatic signifies that the user believes the adjacent zone to be of
> the same conditions as "this" zone. Ergo, there is not really
> transfer of heat through the surface to the other zone, but the
> adiabatic surface will store heat/conditions as the material
> properties of its content. And will release that heat to the zone
> with the adiabatic surface.
>
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