modelRoomOnlySurfaceBoundary

Natural convection in an empty room with only surface 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 coupled simulation of Buildings.ThermalZones.Detailed.CFD with the FFD program by simulating the natural convection in an empty room with only surface boundaries. It is also used to test the adiabatic boundary conditon in the FFD code.

Figure (a) shows the schematic of the FFD simulation. The following conditions are applied in the Modelica model:

  • East Wall: Fixed temperature at 40°C,
  • West Wall: Fixed temperature at 10°C,
  • North and South Wall, Ceiling, Floor: Fixed heat flux at 0 W/m2.

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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
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.FixedTemperatureTWesWalBoundary condition for the west wall
HeatTransfer.Sources.FixedTemperatureTEasWalTemperature of the east wall

Revisions

  • January 12, 2019, by Michael Wetter:
    Removed wrong use of each.
  • July 7, 2015 by Michael Wetter:
    Removed model for prescribed heat flow boundary condition as the value was zero and hence the model is not needed. This is for issue 439.
  • December 31, 2013, by Wangda Zuo:
    First implementation.