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2015-09-15 01:08:58 -0500 | commented question | Thermal modeling with complex fenestration systems Thanks for the suggestion Julien, that will be very usefull to generate the other layers of the glazing correctly. Maybe i can even import an xml file there... |
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2015-09-14 08:34:21 -0500 | asked a question | Thermal modeling with complex fenestration systems Hello everyone, i am working on complex fenestration systems (CFS) with strong angular dependent transmittance. I wrote a raytracing tool (which i validated) to compute transmittance for various angles. I later added interfacing to Radiance for daylight computations. i also added a Perez sky model (diffuse and Direct) to obtain hourly solar gains based on the transmittance. I included a small nodal RC model for a rough estimate of thermal loads in a room. I would like to validate it against an other tool. it seems like e+ could do the trick. So far i am considering using Construction:ComplexFenestrationState and the 4 matrices (T and R, front and back) and 2 vectors (abs front and back). I am slightly familiar with the XML format used in WINDOW 7 and in Radiance to describe CFSs based on these same matrices. I understand the Basis "LBNLWindow" refers to this representation. A year ago, when i added the xml representation to my tool for the Radiance part, i did not find a description of this representation and implemented it by studying examples, by trial and error and using the BSDFViewer to "validate" the results. I did it only for the Front transmittance. I need to extend it to Back transmittance and to reflectances. I would like to avoid this uncertain and cumbersome approach. Is there a detailed description available? I found the relative section in the engineers documentation of Energy plus (pp 170 and on). This helps a little but is still don't know where the patches stop and end... So the main question here is: Where do patches start and end? Given the matrixbasis from the InpoutOutput documentation: I would guess:
Can anyone confirm? Also, in what unit are these values in the 2d matrix of e+? Finally, in case any experts are around or people who used this extensively, here are some more questions :) Are there any other things i should consider using this approach? How large can the matrix be to get reasonable runtime? (the study focuses on the window, everything around is rather minimalist: single room, adiabatic boundaries....) Is it possible to have asymmetric matrices? (resolution on the sky side ... (more) |