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<p class="MsoNormal">A schematic or drawing of your wall would be helpful. It sounds like you’re researching solar thermal storage. One implementation is known as a “Trombe Wall”. You may find this information of Trombe Wall simulation in EnergyPlus helpful:
<a href="https://bigladdersoftware.com/epx/docs/8-0/engineering-reference/page-104.html">
https://bigladdersoftware.com/epx/docs/8-0/engineering-reference/page-104.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">~Bill<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Mohammad Rezvanpour <moh.rzv@gmail.com> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 2, 2021 11:30 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bishop, Bill <bbishop@pathfinder-ea.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Bldg-sim] Simulation of a hollow ventilated wall<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Bill,<br>
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Thank you for your response.<br>
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Imagine a hollow wall, where air or water can travel through it. On one side, heated air (passive or active) go through the wall and exchange heat with the masonry wall and goes out from the other side. Here, it is of utmost importance to evaluate how the wall's
thermal performance (i.e. what its temperature is, how much energy it can store) is likely to affect the home environment (e.g. how temperature fluctuation changes, how about thermal comfort, etc.).<br>
Obviously, there is more to this project than this, but this is a general overview of the process.<br>
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I really appreciate your help in advance.<br>
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Best,<br>
Mohammad<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 8:41 AM Bishop, Bill <<a href="mailto:bbishop@pathfinder-ea.com">bbishop@pathfinder-ea.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Can you share more detail about what you want to simulate?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">~Bill<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Mohammad Rezvanpour via Bldg-sim<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 30, 2021 6:18 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Bldg-sim] Simulation of a hollow ventilated wall<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#111111">The goal is to simulate a
<b>hollow ventilated wall</b> (Air or water could travel through the wall -- interior and exterior) for its
<b>energy performance</b>, but I need to know what options I have. I can indeed use CFX (a tool inside the ANSYS workbench) to do such simulations, but I would like to know if there is a simpler, more efficient, or more recent program that I can use.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Mohammad</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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