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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE-CH link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Dear Arianna<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>in regard to the ventilation study you mention, the CFD model in ESP-r <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>does not have any "porosity" model for obstructions / walls etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>cannot model the environment, you can "only" model one (rectangular) zone in a given model. This can be connected to a zonal afn, though<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Also, a (serious) drawback with obstruction blocks in a CFD-zone is that they do not interact with the air flow thermally, only as flow blockages.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Achim<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Von:</span></b><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk [mailto:esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk] <b>Im Auftrag von </b>A.Sdei@brighton.ac.uk<br><b>Gesendet:</b> Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2012 19:59<br><b>An:</b> esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk<br><b>Betreff:</b> [esp-r] dailight factors+cfd<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Dear All, I can now use radiance desktop via ESP-r and create and view images. I need to find daylight factors, does anyone know how? I would also need to do some ventilation study and I was thinking of using the cfd facility within esp-r. I would need to do some tests with and without trees, is there a parameter such as porosity within esp-r which I can use to better define the trees that at the moment are just blocks of solid obstruction? Let me know, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>kind regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Arianna <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#002060'>Arianna Sdei<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#002060'>Architect, MPhil (Cantab)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#002060'>University of Brighton <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#002060'>Research Fellow, IFORE Project<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#002060'>PhD Fellow<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br>___________________________________________________________<br>This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security<br>System on behalf of the University of Brighton.<br>For more information see <a href="http://www.brighton.ac.uk/is/spam/">http://www.brighton.ac.uk/is/spam/</a><br>___________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>