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Hello,
I need some help about Trnsys 3D model to write my thesis.
I would like to model an air flow from a living room on the first floor to a room on the upper floor through a void.
The goal is to evacuate the overheating via windows that can open on the roof.
To do this, I used virtual surfaces but the air exchange between the different thermal zones is blocked.
Would you have a solution to simulate the air flow between two thermal zones according to the temperatures?
Thanks a lot,
Basile Colin student of the University of Liege.
The two options for having TRNSYS compute the flow between two air nodes are to implement either TRNFlow, which is a TRNSYS add-on that extends the TRNBuild interface to allow you to define the air flow connections between air nodes in your building or to use Type97, which is an implementation of a tool called CONTAM (freely available) that does basically the same.
I find that Type97 offers a little more flexibility and transparency but it requires that you use CONTAM's interface to redraw the building and there is a good bit of information redundancy. There is an example of using Type97 in .Trnsys18\Examples\
TRNFlow is perhaps a little less flexible in my experience but it uses the TRNBuild interface with which you are already familiar.
kind regards,
David
