[esp-r] Re: inputs for HAM simulations

[Achim Geissler]

Hi Georgios

the citation you give below rings a (very faint) bell. I'll check my  
old stuff in the next few days to see what I come up with if nobody  
else has anything readily to hand.

Best
Achim


On Apr 30, 2010, at 7:30 PM, Georgios KOKOGIANNAKIS wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> I have got a question about some of the data that are required for  
> the heat and moisture simulations (HAM) in ESP-r. The coupling is  
> really important since moisture transport affects the heat fluxes of  
> a specific surface in my model.
> Anyway, I am trying to use the 1-D griding and the first input  
> requirement is the following:
> "Enter the moisture permeability data for the selected layer". The  
> defaults are 0  0.000 0.000 0.000. There is no help for these option  
> but I was looking at A. Nakhi's PhD thesis and I understand that the  
> first of these four inputs refers to the index for the type of  
> formula to be used by the simulator (it should always be "1"  
> according to Nakhi's thesis). The other 3 inputs are probably used  
> to solve equations 5.13a and 5.13b of Nakhi's thesis.A. Nakhi refers  
> to the following publication for finding these 3 input data:
> "IEA 1994. ‘‘Catalogue of Material Properties, upgraded version,’’  
> International Energy Agency, Energy Conservation in Buildings and  
> Community System Programme, IEA annex 24 HAMTIE."
>
> Can anybody advise me on how to obtain this publication? Is there  
> any other way to find the inputs needed for a proper HAM simulation?
>
> Thanks,
> Georgios 
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