[TRNSYS-users] Doubt about Type 997

[Jeff Thornton]

The Type 997 output files follow a simple format that is described 
below.  Registered users have access to a brand new soil temperature 
viewer that shows the temperature field in any of the 3 planar views.  
But to your question:

First imagine that you are looking down on the soil from above as you 
would a piece of paper on your desk.  Moving from left to right is the 
x-direction (i), moving from bottom to top is the y-direction (j), and 
moving down from the surface is the z-direction (k).  Therefore the 
lower left corner of your "paper", at the surface, is node (1,1,1).  The 
bottom right corner at the soil surface would be (NX,1,1), the upper 
left corner at the surface would be (1,NY,1) and the upper right corner 
at the surface would be (NX,NY,1).  In a similar manner, the lower left 
corner of your paper at the very bottom of the soil field would be 
(1,1,NZ).  With that in mind the format of the file is then:

NX  NY  NZ     !Number of nodes in x, y and z directions
DX(1)  DX(2)....DX(NX)    !The size of the nodes in the x-direction
DY(1)  DY(2)....DY(NY)    !The size of the nodes in the y-direction
DZ(1)  DZ(2)....DX(NZ)    !The size of the nodes in the z-direction

These lines are supplied only once.  The following lines are repeated in 
patterns for for each vertical node.  Let's assume 3 nodes in the 
x-direction, 4-nodes in the y-direction and 3 nodes in the z-direction 
so you can see the pattern

*Vertical Layer = 1
T(1,4,,1)  T(2,4,1)  T(3,4,1)
T(1,3,,1)  T(2,3,1)  T(3,3,1)
T(1,2,,1)  T(2,2,1)  T(3,2,1)
T(1,1,,1)  T(2,1,1)  T(3,1,1)
*Vertical Layer = 2
T(1,4,,2)  T(2,4,2)  T(3,4,2)
T(1,3,,2)  T(2,3,2)  T(3,3,2)
T(1,2,,2)  T(2,2,2)  T(3,2,2)
T(1,1,,2)  T(2,1,2)  T(3,1,2)
*Vertical Layer = 3
T(1,4,,3)  T(2,4,3)  T(3,4,3)
T(1,3,,3)  T(2,3,3)  T(3,3,3)
T(1,2,,3)  T(2,2,3)  T(3,2,3)
T(1,1,,3)  T(2,1,3)  T(3,1,3)


So if you don't want to use the temperature viewer, you could figure out 
which z-layer occurs at the 2 meter depth and grab those temperatures in 
the x-y plane and put them into Excel or any other graphing package.  
The nice thing about the temperature viewer is that it accounts for the 
different sizes of nodes where Excel will not (well not easily).
Hope this helps.

Jeff


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On 06/06/2018 6:14 am, alevarc93 via TRNSYS-users wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> I’m working with type 997 to model horizontal heat exchanger in the
> ground and I need to know how the temperature of the ground behaves at
> two meters depth during one year. I realized that type 997 gives an
> external file with temperatures of soil but I don’t understand the
> format and how to interpret it. This shows temperatures of various
> vertical layers and another numbers that I don’t understand.
> I’m modeling a ground heat exchanger with 6 pipes in a layer and 2
> layers of pipes.
> 
> Can somebody explain how understand this external file of the type
> 997? Anyone knows how to interpret it?
> I need it to finish my thesis!
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> 
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