Aleck, The steps that you are seeing in some of the temperature plots are probably a result of timebase that you have chosen for the walls in your building. Wall response factors are computed for a series of discrete times extending backwards through the history of the wall. If you use a simulation time step that is less than the wall timebase then the conduction transfer function has a constant value for a few timesteps until the end of the next timebase is reached, then they change and you end up seeing that stepped response. The ideal solution is to use a wall timebase that is as close as possible to your simulation timestep. That is not always feasible though; so I typically use a 0.25hr timebase and a 1 or 5 minute time step. best, david On 6/21/2012 10:40, Yujun TAO wrote:
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