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class=003562607-14092010>1) please have a look to the Trnsys3d Tutorial at page
20. There is a picture at the bottom that shows in what case you'll use the
virtual surface. Normally this wall type is used if you want to simulate
stratification effects like in wintergardens,... By this you could for
example have a radiative zone (means all walls are in radiation exchange) with
several AIRNODES inside. The virtual surface is just a seperator of these
Airnodes that will be deleted after importing into
TRNBUILD. </SPAN></FONT>
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class=003562607-14092010>2) If you use Trnsys3d you'll at first define all
walls in the 3D geometry. These definitions for walls and windows will remain in
TRNBUILD. If you have AIRNODES defined for a radiative zone then the REGIME
DATA is splitted up into two parts, the REGIME DATA for the
specifique AIRNODES (like heating, cooling,...) and the REGIME DATA for the
radiative zone (like GEOMETRY MODE,...).</SPAN></FONT>
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class=003562607-14092010>3) Normally if you have two zones that are linked by an
ADJACENT WALL you can define a COUPLING in TRNBUILD if you select these walls
(like defining a GEOSURF or WALLGAIN). But you have to consider that couplings
can only be in a positive direction. This means that for example if you are in
the definition of zone A you can define a COUPLING from zone B with xxx kg/h air
flow. If you want an air flow the other way then you have to be in the
definition of zone B and to define a COUPLING from zone A... A special case is
if you have a virtual surface between AIRNODES because this will be thrown
out and so you have no wall to define a coupling. For this reason there is a new
button called COUPLING in the REGIME DATA of the AIRNODES. There you can make
the same definitions as for walls.</SPAN></FONT>
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>Von:</B> aongya.sumaila@lte.ireq.ca
[mailto:aongya.sumaila@lte.ireq.ca] <BR>
<B>Gesendet:</B> Montag, 13. September
2010 15:49<BR>
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class=671522313-13092010>Hello,</SPAN></FONT>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=671522313-13092010>I recently started
to explore TRNSYSv17 and I got a few unanswered questions about TRNBuild.
Hopefully, someone of you will be able to help me on this.</SPAN></FONT>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=671522313-13092010>I'm using TRNSYS3D
plug-in for Google SketchUp to create 3D Multizone buildings and I import them
in TRNBuild to add the regime data, equipments...I also worked a bit with the
Multizone Building tutorial example called 'Restaurant'.</SPAN></FONT>
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<DIV><FONT size=+0><SPAN class=671522313-13092010><FONT size=2><FONT
face=Arial>1- In a practical sense, what means 'Virtual Surface'? <SPAN
id=result_box><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff" title=""
closure_uid_1n655h="130" ye="Quelles sont les propriétés de mur de ce type?"
ze="What are the properties of this type of wall? ">What are the properties of
this type of wall? </SPAN><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff" title=""
closure_uid_1n655h="157" ye="Quel sont les cas dans lesquels on l'utilise?"
ze="What are the cases in which it is used?">What are the cases in which it is
used?</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT>
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face=Arial><SPAN><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff" title=""
closure_uid_1n655h="157" ye="Quel sont les cas dans lesquels on l'utilise?"
ze="What are the cases in which it is used?">2- If we create a new airnode in a
zone, do we have to redefine all the building surfaces or they are
assigned by default? Same thing but with the regime data, is it assigned to
all the new airnodes in a zone or just to one by
default? </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT>
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face=Arial><SPAN><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff" title=""
closure_uid_1n655h="157" ye="Quel sont les cas dans lesquels on l'utilise?"
ze="What are the cases in which it is used?">3- In the restaurant example that I
tried to recreate, there is a convective coupling between airnodes in two
differents zones. How is it possible to do
that?</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT>
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face=Arial><SPAN><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff" title=""
closure_uid_1n655h="157" ye="Quel sont les cas dans lesquels on l'utilise?"
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closure_uid_1n655h="157" ye="Quel sont les cas dans lesquels on l'utilise?"
ze="What are the cases in which it is used?">Thanks in advance for any help you
can provide!</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT>
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