Re: Direct solar radiation Type 56

[Michaël Kummert <kummert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The way I understand transmission through internal windows in Type 56, 
it is possible to have some direct solar radiation transmitted through 
several internal windows.
However, your building (or whatever you want to simulate with Type 56) 
must be very special if that happens in reality. Assuming Type 56 really 
allows you to transmit direct radiation through 5 successive windows, I 
am not sure the results would be meaningful. You may need to use a 
different model (i.e. to write one yourself) to model the radiative 
exchanges more accurately. In any case I would run some simple 
steady-state cases and check the results.

Regards,

Michaël Kummert

sim@energiebuero-berlin.de wrote:


> Thank you Michaël,
> but does Geosurf also work if I have 5 zones after each other, not only two like a 
> double fassade? Is it possible to let direct solar radiation from outside pass trough first, 
> second, third and fourth zone and being absorbed on a surface in the fifth zone?
> By Christian
>
>
>
> On 18 Jul 2003 at 12:05, Michaël Kummert wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Dear Christian,
> > If you are using TRNSYS 15, Type 56 allows you to model internal 
> > windows. You can also use the "GEOSURF" feature to control the 
> > distribution of incoming direct solar radiation. For instance, if you 
> > have a double façade building and the "inner skin" of the façade is 
> > fully glazed, you would typically set GEOSURF to 1 for the internal window.
> > Please note that if you use very special windows you may have to tweak 
> > the transmittance of the internal window to obtain meaningful results 
> > (for instance, assume that a window has a transmittance of 1 in one part 
> > of the radiation spectrum and 0 in the other part, resulting in an 
> > overall transmission of 0.6. If you put 2 windows in series, the 
> > transmittance modeled by Type56 will be 0.6*0.6=0.36, while the "real" 
> > transmittance is 0.6 - you cannot filter the same part of the spectrum 
> > twice!).
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Michaël Kummert
> >
> > sim@energiebuero-berlin.de wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Dear TRNSYS-Users,
> > > I want to model a house, where a part of the incoming direct solar 
> > > radiation is absorbed by a wall and another part of this direct 
> > > radiation "flows" into the next (adjacent) zone and is absorbed 
> > > there. Is it possible to let solar direct radiation stream through one 
> > > zone into another?
> > > Thanks for help!
> > > Christian Stolte
> > >
> > >
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