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Weekends Occupancy not reflecting in temperatures

Hi. I'm in the process of model calibration with indoor temperatures. For context these are measured data from a 4th Floor naturally ventilated classroom in the tropics.

I am experiencing spikes in temperatures on Saturdays when I've set the occupancy during weekends to 0. (I am currently not worried about the weekends matching up with the measured data, as these were measured during inconsistent class schedules.) But if I specified no occupancies on the weekends, then they shouldn't match ideally.

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I am just wondering why there are spikes on Saturdays and low temperatures the Mondays after. There are also Thursdays and Tuesdays with normal occupancy that are significantly cooler than the rest of the week. Is there something I am missing? For reference I am using OS Application and reading the ESO files in DesignBuilder Results Viewer. Thank you.

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Weekends Occupancy not reflecting in temperatures

Hi. I'm in the process of model calibration with indoor temperatures. For context these are measured data from a 4th Floor naturally ventilated classroom in the tropics.

I am experiencing spikes in temperatures on Saturdays when I've set the occupancy during weekends to 0. (I am currently not worried about the weekends matching up with the measured data, as these were measured during inconsistent class schedules.) But if I specified no occupancies on the weekends, then they shouldn't match ideally.

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I am just wondering why there are spikes on Saturdays and low temperatures the Mondays after. There are also Thursdays and Tuesdays with normal occupancy that are significantly cooler than the rest of the week. Is there something I am missing? For reference I am using OS Application and reading the ESO files in DesignBuilder Results Viewer. Thank you.

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Weekends Occupancy not reflecting in temperatures

Hi. I'm in the process of model calibration with indoor temperatures. For context these are measured data from a 4th Floor naturally ventilated classroom in the tropics.

I am experiencing spikes in temperatures on Saturdays when I've set the occupancy during weekends to 0. (I am currently not worried about the weekends matching up with the measured data, as these were measured during inconsistent class schedules.) But if I specified no occupancies on the weekends, then they shouldn't match ideally.

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I am just wondering why there are spikes on Saturdays and low temperatures the Mondays after. There are also Thursdays and Tuesdays with normal occupancy that are significantly cooler than the rest of the week. Is there something I am missing? For reference I am using OS Application and reading the ESO files in DesignBuilder Results Viewer. Thank you.

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EDIT: The entire simulation run seems to be running a day late? As I've seen in the temperature values of one of the rooms with simple window-type airconditioning, the temperature increases on a Monday, when the HVAC is scheduled to be off only on the weekends.

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