[EnergyPlus_Support] Natural ventilation and indoor operative temperature

["Roshmi Sen s.roshmi@xxxxxxxxx [EnergyPlus_Support]" <EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear EnergyPlus support group,

I modelled a low income multi-family housing in Indian warm humid climate as a free running building in designbuilder. I have simulated the room with my windows closed since I was doing a sensitivity analysis of comfort performance of various building envelop combinations and it would be difficult to validate my model with the kind of instruments I was having if windows were open.

My current results are giving very low comfort performance with the adaptive comfort equation I am using to assess comfort, even with elevated air speed with use of ceiling fan. My understanding is not clear if energyplus would have reported a different indoor operative temperature had the windows been opened due to the effect of hourly air velocities in the weather file. I did not use the CFD module.

If anyone can comment on this that would be really helpful.

Thanks and regards,

Roshmi

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Posted by: Roshmi Sen <s.roshmi@xxxxxxxxx>

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