[TRNSYS-users] Initializing wall temperature

[David BRADLEY]

Marcello,
   To my knowledge there is not a way to precondition the walls. I would 
expect that with such thick walls you would need to run the building for 
at least a 6 month period (if not a 1 year period) in order to get rid 
of all the initial value transients. If it makes you feel any better to 
know that you are not alone in your misery of waiting for a slow 
simulation, I often have models that run more slowly than 1 month per 40 
minutes! Some ground coupling simulations run at near real-time!
kind regards,
  David


On 10/05/2015 08:06, marcello.caciolo at cofelyaxima-gdfsuez.com wrote:
>
> Dear Trnsys users,
>
> I am currently working on a very massive building, with many zones and 
> very with high thermal inertia (concrete wall from 60 to 120 cm of 
> thickness). The model takes 40 minutes to calculate 1 month.
>
> I observe than after one month, final temperatures in zones are still 
> very depending on initial temperatures. For this reason, I tried to 
> adjust initial temperature to be nearer to expected final temperatures 
> (in the order of 35-40°C).
>
> However, in the first part of the simulation, temperatures drop 
> quickly to 25-30°C, depending on the zone. This is quite surprising, 
> considering that there are no heat losses and there are heat gains. 
> The only explication I found is that surface temperatures are not 
> initialized to initial temperature of the zone, and thermal mass takes 
> time to warm up.
>
> Do you know if there is a way to force surface temperatures to zone 
> temperatures at the beginning of a simulation ?
>
> Thank you !
>
> Best regards,
>
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