.BuildSysPro.IBPSA.Airflow.Multizone.Point_m_flow

Information

Model that fits the flow coefficient of the massflow version of the orifice equation based on 1 datapoint of mass flow rate and pressure difference, and given flow exponent.

A similar model is also used in the CONTAM software (Dols and Walton, 2015).

References

• W. S. Dols and B. J. Polidoro,2015. CONTAM User Guide and Program Documentation Version 3.2, National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST TN 1887, Sep. 2015. doi: 10.6028/NIST.TN.1887.

Revisions

• February 2, 2022, by Michael Wetter:
  Revised implementation.
  This is for IBPSA, #1436.
• Apr 6, 2021, 2020, by Klaas De Jonge:
  First implementation.