[esp-r] Re: 10 column limitation using RES

[Marco Manzan]

>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm running a simulation that looks at incident solar energy on a building
> surface and noticed a few things that I was hoping someone could clarify.
>
> First is that 'SW incident solar' appears not to work for transparent
> surfaces.  Should I be using 'Solar processes' and select 'solar entering
> from outside'?  Or is this accounted for in the overall building surface?
>
> Also, it appears that RES limits data output to 10 columns (anymore then 10
> surfaces appears to be cutoff from the GRT output file).  Is it possible to
> recompile ESPr and change this to, say 20 columns?  What was the original
> thought in limiting it to ten?
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Scott

dear Scott

SW incident solar does not work for transparent surfaces, for  
transparent surfaces you can simply check the value from the parent  
opaque surface.

and yes there is the limit for ten colum values in res, I solved this  
problem by writing scripts and running them automatically. You can run  
the res with mode text, record the key sequence and write a script  
that saves the data on multiple files. The following script reads the  
"libb" file of results and saves the internal surface temperture for 4  
walls in two separate files "out1.dat" and "out2.dat"

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#!/bin/bash

res -mode text -file libb << EOF

c #time step report
g #performance matrix
> #out to file
out1.dat
first data
b #temp
i #inside surface
a #wall-1
b #wall-2
- #exit
! #list data
> #out to screen
> #out to file
out2.dat
second data series
b #temp
i #inside surfaces
c #wall-3
d #wall-4
- #exit
! #list data
- #exit
- #exit
- #exit
EOF
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I hope this helps you


Marco
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