How to simulate natural ventilation between interzones using operable windows/doors?
The case study I am trying to simulate is basically 4 individual rooms/apartments that are connected by a corridor. Sliding windows are opened in each room, and doors of each room are opened. The corridor does not have windows, so air runs through the room windows - exits through room doors - flows through the corridor and then enters through another room door and exit through a window. I want to use natural ventilation to predict the mean indoor air temperature of each room/apartment under those conditions (then validate by comparing results with data that was already collected in situ). The rooms/apartments are located in the 20th floor of an apartment building of total 32 floors. I am using coupled simulation using SketchUp OS plugin and OS app. I already tried using this Natural ventilation measure https://bcl.nrel.gov/node/82785 - which describes that is not intended to be use for interzone modeling. I used this measure and created a construction material for operable windows - and assigned it to one side of the sliding window of each room and to the doors. Not all windows from the rooms are operable - some are fixed too; and doors are operable. However, I do not know if results are accurate - because the measure does not calculate interzones. With this background information. How would you simulate the natural ventilation between interzones using operable windows/doors? Thank you.
For this complex cases of natural ventilation I´d recommend looking into the Airflow Network. The AFN needs to be implemented via Energyplus directly, since it is not supported by OS yet.
You can find some examples inside your Energyplus folder installation inside the folder ExampleFiles