modelRoomOnlyConstructionBoundary

Test model for natural convection in an empty room with only construction boundary.

Extends from Modelica.Icons.Example (Icon for runnable examples), Buildings.ThermalZones.Detailed.Examples.FFD.BaseClasses.PartialRoom (Partial model for a room).

Information

This model tests the copuled simulation of Buildings.ThermalZones.Detailed.CFD with the FFD program by simulating the natural convection in an empty room with only construction boundaries.

Figure (a) shows the schematic of the FFD simulation. The room is 1 meter in length, width and height. The temperature of the east wall is set to 40°C and the rest walls are at 10°C. The initial value for the temperature of the room air is 30°C. Two sensors are placed in the room center at (0.5 m, 0.5 m, 0.5 m) that measure the temperature and the velocity.

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Figure (a)

Figure (b) shows the velocity vectors and temperature contours in degree Celsius on the X-Z plane at Y = 0.5 m as simulated by the FFD.

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Figure (b)

Parameters

TypeNameDefaultDescription
Buildings.HeatTransfer.Data.OpaqueConstructions.GenericmatLayWalConstruction material for all the envelopes
IntegernConExtWin (from PartialRoom)0Number of constructions with a window
IntegernConBou (from PartialRoom)0Number of surface that are connected to constructions that are modeled inside the room
IntegernSurBou (from PartialRoom)0Number of surface that are connected to the room air volume
IntegernConExt (from PartialRoom)0Number of exterior constructions withour a window
IntegernConPar (from PartialRoom)0Number of partition constructions

Components

TypeNameDefaultDescription
Buildings.ThermalZones.Detailed.CFDroo (from PartialRoom)Room model
Modelica.Blocks.Sources.ConstantqConGai_flow (from PartialRoom)Convective heat gain
Modelica.Blocks.Sources.ConstantqRadGai_flow (from PartialRoom)Radiative heat gain
Modelica.Blocks.Routing.Multiplex3multiplex3_1 (from PartialRoom)
Modelica.Blocks.Sources.ConstantqLatGai_flow (from PartialRoom)Latent heat gain
Buildings.BoundaryConditions.WeatherData.ReaderTMY3weaDat (from PartialRoom)
Buildings.HeatTransfer.Sources.FixedTemperature[nConBou - 1]TWalResBoundary condition for the other walls
HeatTransfer.Sources.FixedTemperatureTEasWalTemperature of the east wall

Revisions

  • January 12, 2019, by Michael Wetter:
    Removed wrong use of each.
  • August 13, 2013, by Wangda Zuo:
    First implementation.