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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hello Jason,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Great building to try to simulate.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">However, real courtyard buildings are very difficult to simulate accurately because, depending on climate, they have the potential to expose the building to (2) or more “weather files”, one for the exterior surfaces
of the building and one for the “courtyard”. In addition, if there are any openings from the exterior through the building into the courtyard, then there can be significant cross ventilation, which further complicates things.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Finally, if the building is in an extreme climate (for example hot and dry), and if there is any vegetation in the courtyard or fountain, then you may also have significant evaporative cooling in the courtyard
(i.e., wetting of the porous floor and walls) and in such cases you’ll need an industrial strength CFD program coupled with the building thermal simulation, that is capable of tracking air flow and moisture in and around the building and its courtyard…not
for the faint of heart.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">If there is no interaction between the building and the courtyard, if you don’t have evaporative cooling and if you have some measured data, then one could develop an empirical or “inverse simulation” of the
courtyard, split the building like a donut and “simulate” the weather condition inside the courtyard for the inner portion of the building and the normal weather file outside the building with the outside portions and then knit the two simulations together
with adiabatic, mass-type thermal walls after iterating to converge the solutions.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">One additional difficult issue is that many of the traditional courtyard buildings have amounts of thermal mass that go way beyond the capabilities of today’s whole-building thermal simulation programs, which
can require a rather long period to converge (i.e., weeks or months).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Finally, although there has been some previous work in this area, most creditable efforts attempt to resolve one of more of the above issues.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Jeff<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Jeff S. Haberl, Ph.D.,P.E.inactive,FASHRAE,FIBPSA,......<a href="mailto:........jhaberl@tamu.edu">jhaberl@tamu.edu</a><br>
Professor........................................................................Office Ph: 979-845-6507<br>
Department of Architecture............................................Lab Ph:979-845-6065<br>
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College Station, Texas, USA, 77843..............................URL:www.esl.tamu.edu<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Equest-users [mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ng, Jason<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 20, 2015 4:01 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Equest-users] Interior courtyards<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black">Of course, I forgot to attach my image……<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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jr. M.Sc.A., LEED green associate</span></b><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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