Object-oriented sub-zonal room models for energy-related building simulation
Marco Bonvini, Alberto Leva · Linköping electronic conference proceedings · 2011
Simulation is important to evaluate the energy-related performance of a building, and for reliable results, reproducing the behaviour of the contained air volumes is particularly relevant.For such a purpose, fully mixed models (i.e., for instance, a single temperature per room) easily prove inadequate, while Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) ones are too complex, and difficult to formulate in a modular manner, to the detriment of their usefulness if the simulator has to be used throughout the project, and not only to assess its final result.This manuscript presents an intermediate solution based on the Modelica language.