[TRNSYS-users] Fwd: coupling air flow

[David BRADLEY]

Michele,

   Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. TRNFlow (or CONTAM, which 
I personally prefer) is the correct way to implement your flow controller.

kind regards,

  David


On 03/13/2019 12:17, Michele Vella wrote:
> Dear David
> I have installed TRNFlow , im trying to do a flow controller using 
> thermal airnode. Im not sure if this is the good method to implent it.
> Thanks
> Michele Vella
>
> On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 at 21:29, David BRADLEY <d.bradley at tess-inc.com 
> <mailto:d.bradley at tess-inc.com>> wrote:
>
>     Michele,
>
>       There are two tools available for determining the quantity of
>     coupling airflow. One is Type97 (or Type98) (both of which are
>     links between TRNSYS and a freely available software tool called
>     CONTAM). The other is a commercially available TRNSYS add-on
>     called TRNFlow. The idea behind both is that the Trnsys building
>     thermal model (Type56) provides zone temperatures to the airflow
>     model (CONTAM or TRNFlow). The airflow model takes those
>     temperatures (as well as ambient conditions and a certain amount
>     of building geometry with which the thermal model is not usually
>     concerned) and computes the corresponding interzonal air flows.
>     These are passed back to Type56, which recomputes zonal
>     temperatures. Iteration continues until both the thermal and
>     airflow models agree.
>
>     kind regards,
>
>      David
>
>
>     On 03/04/2019 12:50, Michele Vella via TRNSYS-users wrote:
>>
>>
>>     Hi, I m designing a church with different thermal zones and the
>>     common surfaces are set to virtual surface. I activated the
>>     coupling . What would be the ideal coupling air flow?
>>
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