Problem with materials and loads in Thermal Simulations

Hallo everyone,

I am quite new to this forum!

I followed ALL Chris' video tutorials about thermal simulations with honeybee (thanks a lot by the way!).

I am experiencing this problem: the attached grasshopper file seem to work but the results are not sensible at all to changes in loads and materials (i tried to put a 1m-thick concrete wall or 50 people instead of 2 and nothing changes inside!). On the contrary if I change the maximum indoor or outdoor temperature for natural ventilation, it ends up changing a lot.

Can anyone take a look and help me? :)

Thank you,

Irene

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Simulazione Città della Pace_OK.gh, 656 KB

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Permalink Reply by Max D on July 1, 2016 at 10:19am

By "nothing changes", you mean what result outputs, exactly?

I see you are using a nat vent component, have you incrementally tested your definition to make sure it first works without nat vent, then add it, compare, rinse, repeat?

Best,

Max

Permalink Reply by Irene Giglio on July 10, 2016 at 5:09pm

Hi Max!

Yes, I mean the Operative Temperature inside the shoebox.

I have tried with and without it and I don't understand what is wrong. Can you see any major mistake?

Thank you very much,

Irene

Permalink Reply by Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari on July 11, 2016 at 11:22am

For debugging issues like this you need to first check the output that will be affected directly. Does internal gains changes between the two simulation? What is the percentage of internal gain over the overall gain in the zone? and so on...

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