.Buildings.ThermalZones.Detailed.BaseClasses.PartialSurfaceInterface

Information

This partial model is used as a base class for models that need to exchange heat with room-facing surfaces. It defines parameters for the surface areas. The model is used as a base class to implement the convective model, and the various radiation models.

Revisions

• July 12, 2013, by Michael Wetter:
  Removed the radiation related declarations to facilitate the separation of the convective and radiative model.
• July 17, 2012, by Michael Wetter:
  Added validity check of surface areas. This helped catching a bug in an early implementation of BESTEST Case960 in which the extending class set nConExtWin=0, but did not set the area to zero. Because the radiation balance model computes exchange among NConExtWin=max(nConExtWin, 1) areas, its result was wrong.
• November 6, 2011, by Michael Wetter:
  Changed parameters that contain radiative properties from final to non-final, as they need to be overwritten by Buildings.ThermalZones.Detailed.BaseClasses.SolarRadiationExchange.
• November 16 2010, by Michael Wetter:
  First implementation.