[esp-r] Re: Plant simulation

[Jon Hand]

You question about urban streets.... the term "can simulate plant inside the buildings" - is this environmental control equipment
or vegetation?  Environmental control equipment that is located outside the building would be part of an ESP-r description but
heat exchanges with such equipment and the outside air does not alter the state of the outside air.  

If your question is can ESP-r model things like green roof designs there is a group in China who are working on an explicit
model of the heat and moisture transfer of green roof designs (work in progress).

-Jon Hand
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From: esp-r-bounces at lists.strath.ac.uk [esp-r-bounces at lists.strath.ac.uk] on behalf of armaghan a [ahmadi.armaghan at gmail.com]
Sent: 07 July 2014 16:02
To: esp-r at lists.strath.ac.uk
Subject: [esp-r]  Plant simulation

dear madam/sir,

I am a PhD candidate of urban design and my dissertation is about the effect of urban streets on energy consumption of residential buildings in hot and dry climate.
I am looking for finding a software to simulate energy consumption inside a typical building in different streets and it is important for me to simulate green spaces out side the buildings. I understood that Esp -r can simulate plant inside the buildings, how about outside?
Is this software useful for my simulation?

I am looking forward to hear from you.
Best regards,
Armaghan.


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Armaghan Ahmadi,
PhD Candidate of Urban Design,
Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning,
Shahid Beheshti University,
Tehran, Iran.