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Re: [TRNSYS-users] False ceiling between 2 Zones seems to cause range check error



Marina,
Range check errors are hard to diagnose and really should not be your problem to solve unless there are user-written components in the simulation. You may have to send the project to your distributor from assistance. However, two things that I would check before you do that are as follows: 1. make sure that the false ceiling is modeled as a resistive layer and not as a mass wall. 2. try running the simulation with constant convection coefficiencts on both sides of the false ceiling (instead of using the internal calculation mode)
Kind regards,
 David


On 8/16/2013 04:28, Marina Stegelmeier wrote:
Dear TRNSYS Users,

I have a problem with a multizone building model using TRNFlow and TRNSYS 3d. The building is an airplane hangar consisting of 3 airnodes on top of each other in one thermal zone. So far the model worked fine. Now, I want to model a false ceiling (just one thin layer of material) between the middle and upper airnode to reduce the heated air volume (the hangar ist too big for the type of airplane in it). I changed the construction of the relevant surface of the middel airnode in Sketchup from virtual surface to adjacent ceiling (and accordingly to adj. floor for the upper airnode) and imported the new idf-file in TRNBuild. Instead of one, I have now two thermal zones because the space above the false ceiling is a zone itself. The false ceiling is an adjacent wall between the two zones and the adjacent airnodes are correct. I adapted the Airlink-Model a little and ran the simulation. Unfortunately I got a range check error, so the model doesn't work and I really don't know why...

Can anyone help or has somebody had a smiliar problem? I would be really grateful for comments.

Regards,
Marina Stegelmeier


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