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No Load Airflow Through Fancoil

Can some one please tell me what the inputs for "supply air flow Rate When no Cooling is Needed" and "supply air flow Rate When no Heating is Needed" do for the object OS:ZoneHVAC:TerminalUnit:VariableRefrigerantFlow when coupled with a DOAS?

Feels like these should be hard sized to zero but the default seems to be autosize when creating a VRF system using measures (and then EnergyPlus just autosizes the values to be the same as the airflow rate when heating or cooling is needed). At the most I would expect the no heat/cool airflow to be equal to the outdoor airflow but even this does not make sense given that the DOAS air loop does not seem to be integrated with VRF terminal units.

I feel like I must be missing something obvious, any insight would be appreciated.

No Load Airflow Through Fancoil

Can some one please tell me what the inputs for "supply air flow Rate When no Cooling is Needed" and "supply air flow Rate When no Heating is Needed" do for the object OS:ZoneHVAC:TerminalUnit:VariableRefrigerantFlow when coupled with a DOAS?

Feels like these should be hard sized to zero but the default seems to be autosize when creating a VRF system using measures (and then EnergyPlus just autosizes the values to be the same as the airflow rate when heating or cooling is needed). At the most I would expect the no heat/cool airflow to be equal to the outdoor airflow but even this does not make sense given that the DOAS air loop does not seem to be integrated with VRF terminal units.

I feel like I must be missing something obvious, any insight would be appreciated.