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Last seen: Jul 11, 2025
@charles-maragna I would recommend trying to contact the authors of the paper. You might also look at Prof Katherine D'Avignon's work specifically at ...
@salwa When we compile Type155, we have to link it to four *.lib files. The *.lib file that is referenced in your screen capture (libmx.dll) is one o...
@salwa It is a bit unclear to me when the error is occurring. Do you get this error as soon as you launch the coupled simulation? If so then I would...
@dromar123 thank you for the tip. Would you be willing to share what data you found to be erroneous and how you modified it to get that particular gla...
@m-m yes. The Trnsys18 building model has a PMV/PPD calculation built in. There is also a component in the TESS Libraries v18 that provides a little...
@eman_mag I have not encountered that error; would you mind posting the *.idf (and *.b18 file if one is being generated) so that I can have a look? ...
@academictester and @petaxa @petaxa @academictester is correct; I did apparently fix this issue with a v18 release. The v17 copy that I was using ...
@ken The way that I usually do this is to use TRNOpt (part of the TESS Optimization library). Essentially you can define a cost function (in your ca...
@Manaya_ Your English is excellent! Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to your follow up. I believe that the active layer mode...
@ken I believe that equation 4.9.2-5 applies to the collector inlet and outlet pipes whereas the other equation applies to the pipes and risers tha...
@ken It may be worth noting that sometimes the limits that are placed on proformas are there because of limitations in the code. For instance, Type45...
@ken, Changes that you make to the proformas are not automatically reflected in projects that use those proformas. Think of the proforma as a template...
@ken, I think that you would have to modify the source code in order to do that. Does the collector you are modeling have a load side heat exchanger? ...
@baumstrunk Damian, if the LOOP command is not functioning in v18 it is a bug and not something intentional. That said, Type22 has the concept o...
Type56 takes latent gains in kg/h of water so as an absolute humidity gain. As a side note, there is an evapotranspiration model included in the lat...