A field validation of the thermal performance of a passively heated building as simulated by the DEROB system

✍ Scribed by Francisco Arumí-Noé; David O. Northrup

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 687 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-7788
• DOI: 10.1016/0378-7788(79)90021-5

✦ Synopsis

DEROB is a fully dynamic program, capable in principle of handling architectural designs of arbitrary geometry and simultan. eously solving thermally coupled multispace structures. Solar Village I is a 2 storey, L-shaped, hybrid structure with a glasshouse occupying the front court (south-facing) 2-storey volume. Hourly data include, in addition to micro-climatic information, temperature readings of the air in the glasshouse, of the air in the various living quarters, the temperature readings across the adobe walls that separate the living quarters from the glasshouse, and also the temperature of the two rock storage bins. The simulated model treats the house as having five thermally coupled spaces, one for each wing of each floor or the living quarters, and one for the glasshouse. The output of DEROB is *This work was supported by the Division of Solar Energy of the Department of Energy (Grant EM-78-G-04-4236) as part of the project Integration and Validation of the DEROB and PASOLE Computer programs for the Simulation of Passive Solar Heating and Cooling of Buildings.

programmed to simulate the temperature readings at the places corresponding to the readings collected in the instrumented house. The agreement between simulated and observed values is sufficiently close to justify further validation of the DEROB system and, subject to this additional validation, to offer it as a research simulation and design aid tool for the thermal performance of passively heated and cooled buildings. * See figure 2 ** See figure 3 *** See figure 4