<div dir="ltr">Thank you very much.<div><br></div><div>Kind regard </div><div>Chiara</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-05-02 11:30 GMT+02:00 hotline <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hotline@transsolar.com" target="_blank">hotline@transsolar.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">yes you are right. Use HTC =  0.01 kJ/k m² (not a smaller value!!!) for inside and outside to make the virtual window surface temperature approach
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<b>Im Auftrag von </b>Chiara Colucci<br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Donnerstag, 28. April 2016 12:16<br>
<b>An:</b> TRNSYS users mailing list at OneBuilding.org<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [TRNSYS-users] Trnsys17<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Hi Jakob, thank you<span lang="EN"> for the reply. I think I will use the solution 1. About this I would like to know why you talk only<u> inside HTC</u>. Also
<u><span style="color:black">outside HTC</span></u> has to be small?</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Best regard<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2016-04-22 13:12 GMT+02:00 hotline <<a href="mailto:hotline@transsolar.com" target="_blank">hotline@transsolar.com</a>>:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Dear
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Chiara,</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">A virtual surface isn’t the appropriate approach.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Virtual surfaces should be used  as adjacent surfaces between zones in SketchUp which
 are merged into one zone with multiple airnodes.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">A virtual surface isn’t a heat transfer surface, it doesn’t exist in the thermal model.
 Thus, the error </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">message is correct. The volume of the canyon zone  isn’t closed and therefore no view
 factor matrix </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">could be calculated.  </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Modelling outdoor space isn’t  a straightforward task.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Solution 1</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">In order to generate a closed volume of the canyon and allow solar radiation to penetrate
 into the zone </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">you need a window. To do the shortwave solar correct you may use a so-called “no window”
 which has a transparency of 100 %.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">However, this surface has a temperature and thereby influences the zone air temperature
 by its inside convections</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">heat transfer coefficient (HTC) and the longwave exchange by its temperature.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">For reducing the influence on the air temperature you may define the  inside HTC to
 be small (like 0.01 kJ/k m²).</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">For longwave radiation exchange the window temperature should be approximately the sky
 temperature.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">However, you can’t fix a temperature of window. You have to try to calculate a surface
 gain such that the</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Temperature is close and the model is still converging.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Solution 2</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">You use solution 1 for calculating the incident radiation (total and direct) on the
 window and use this radiation</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">as input to a model which doesn’t contain a “canyon zone”.  For longwave radiation exchange
 you have to</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">estimate the “effective ground temperature”.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">All the best</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Jakob Merk</span></i><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">70563 Stuttgart</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>Im Auftrag von </b>Chiara Colucci<br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Mittwoch, 6. April 2016 16:49<br>
<b>An:</b> <a href="mailto:trnsys-users@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">trnsys-users@lists.onebuilding.org</a><br>
<b>Betreff:</b> [TRNSYS-users] Trnsys17</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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