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Hello everyone,

I'm trying to use the swimmingpool:indoor object to model an outdoor pool.

Here is my approach:

• place the pool in a zone with holes in all walls and roof
• increase infiltration and natural ventilation to ensure the zone conditions match the outdoor environment.

Here are my questions:

• Will the outdoor wind flow through the holes of my zone? I don't think it does. This is likely the biggest drawback to using the indoor pool object for an outside pool.
• I could increase the activity factor to drive more evaporation. The problem with this approach, is that I don't have any targets to calibrate.

Please let me know if anybody has tried this method. Perhaps somebody has a data on heating energy use for an outdoor heated pool in the NorthEast. This project is in Burlington, Vermont. Thanks for looking.

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to use the swimmingpool:indoor object to model an outdoor pool.

Here is my approach:

• place the pool in a zone with holes in all walls and roof
• increase infiltration and natural ventilation to ensure the zone conditions match the outdoor environment.

Here are my questions:

• Will the outdoor wind flow through the holes of my zone? I don't think it does. This is likely the biggest drawback to using the indoor pool object for an outside pool.
• I could increase the activity factor to drive more evaporation. The problem with this approach, is that I don't have any targets to calibrate.

Please let me know if anybody has tried this method. Perhaps somebody has a data on heating energy use for an outdoor heated pool in the NorthEast. This project is in Burlington, Vermont. Thanks for looking.