NatLabRockies / NatLabRockies/OpenStudio
Enable the height of outdoor air node
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Since Sep 4, 2020.
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Description
Enhancement Request
EnergyPlus can define the height for outdoor air nodes, which will impact the weather conditions (e.g. temperature and wind speed) vertically. The vertical variation of weather conditions has a significant impact on energy and load for tall buildings. This is needed for the tall building prototype model, but is not enabled in OpenStudio yet.
Detailed Description
I propose to add the height characteristic to the OS Node object, which can then be reflected as the height field of outdoor air node in E+ (screenshot IDD below) via ForwardTranslator.
Possible Implementation
Potentially the height info could be stored in the OS Node object, and be interpreted in ForwardTranslator only if Node is the OutdoorAirNode type.
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