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Dear Trnsys users,
I want to know how trnsys handle solar radiations through adiabatic walls.
Since i am modelling a one span of a multispan greenhouse; i want to consider the side walls adiabatic but i want to put either glazings on them or to consider them as virtual surfaces to let solar radiations into the greenhouse. (the virtual surfaces can't be on the sides, since it cannot be specified on BND Walls it has to be External or Adjacent).
Thank you.
Mohamed SARMOUK
Mohamed,
I think the way I would handle this is to make the side walls adiabatic boundaries and then use a window model (there is a simple stand-alone window model in the TESS Loads and Structures library and there used to be one in the standard library (Type35). You can use the stand-alone window model to compute the energy transferred through the side walls then add that energy as an additional gain to your Type56 zone.
kind regards,
David
Dear Mohamed,
We have a beta-feature for Type56 which would allow you to define userdefined boundary temperatures for external walls, which might help you to model this.
Please get in touch via hotline@transsolar.com, if you are interested.
Kind regards,
Christina
