Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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I think another good reason to use ZoneMixing is when you've airflows involving more than 2 zones and isn't perfectly symetric between each pair of zones but you still don't want to bother with a detailed AFN.
For example, you've 2 rooms adjacent to each other and connected to the same corridor. Air flow from room 1 to room2 (e.g. you have a fan in the door between them), then from room 2 to the corridor and comes back to room 1 from the corridor. You end up with a "swirl" of air between the 3 rooms that ZoneCrossMixing simply cannot depict as it enforce balance between the source and recieving zone.
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I think another good reason to use ZoneMixing ZoneMixing is when you've airflows involving more than 2 zones and isn't perfectly symetric between each pair of zones but you still don't want to bother with a detailed AFN.
For example, you've 2 rooms adjacent to each other and connected to the same corridor. Air flow from room 1 to room2 (e.g. you have a fan in the door between them), then from room 2 to the corridor and comes back to room 1 from the corridor. You end up with a "swirl" of air between the 3 rooms that ZoneCrossMixing ZoneCrossMixing simply cannot depict as it enforce balance between the source and recieving zone.
