[EnergyPlus_Support] EnergyPlus and Bottled Beverages

["ncbrown76@xxxxxxxxx [EnergyPlus_Support]" <EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All --

I am exploring the possibility of using EnergyPlus to model the temperature change of bottled beverages in cases stacked on pallets that are being delivered in a truck. Conceptually, the truck is a moving building.

Do folks have thoughts on how to think about modeling:

 + the movement of the truck? The speed of the truck is like wind speed, but the truck's orientation changes; can EnergyPlus model a rotating building?

 + the temperature of a bottled beverage? The beverages are thermal mass, but not all beverages will change by the same amount. If the truck gets warm, the outer layer of bottles will warm more than the bottles towards the center of the pallet. Perhaps we can use an internal mass object with thickness, specific heat capacity and conductivity selected to represent the beverages (and ideally calibrate this to experimental data)?

 + any other aspects of this situation that might be interesting/tricky given this application of EnergyPlus?

Thanks in advance!

Cheers,
Nathan

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