<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14"> <meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 14"> <link rel="File-List" href="cid:filelist.xml@01CEECEE.5BDFAC80"><link rel="Edit-Time-Data" href="cid:editdata.mso"><style></style> </head> <body lang="EN-CA" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="tab-interval:36.0pt"> <div class="WordSection1"> Hi Arianna,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> You can use AIM-2 with attached housing provided the ELA or ACH data has been either a) collected with the entire building depressurized, or b) the leakage values have been adjusted to reflect air movement through party walls. Adjust the ‘leakage distribution’ in the AIM-2 file as follows:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <img width="709" height="211" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CEECEE.5BDFAC80"><o:p></o:p> - Alex <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"> From: Arianna Sdei [mailto:A.Sdei@brighton.ac.uk] Sent: November 29, 2013 10:05 To: Ferguson, Alex; esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk Subject: RE: air flow network<o:p></o:p> </div> </div> <o:p> </o:p> Hi Alex, <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> thank you very much, that sounds very useful, however at the moment I am modelling some end of terrace and mid terrace houses while  AIM2 can be used only for detached houses, isn’t it?<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Arianna<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"> From: Ferguson, Alex [<a href="mailto:Alex.Ferguson@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca">mailto:Alex.Ferguson@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca</a>] Sent: 29 November 2013 14:51 To: Arianna Sdei; <a href="mailto:esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk">esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk</a> Subject: RE: air flow network<o:p></o:p> </div> </div> <o:p> </o:p> Hi Arianna, <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> If your goal is merely to characterize energy loss from infiltration in a single house, you may find the AIM2 model is easier-to-use and more accurate than a flow network. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Info on configuration & theoretical basis: <a href="https://espr.trac.cvsdude.com/esp-r/wiki/EmpiricalAirInfiltrationModel">https://espr.trac.cvsdude.com/esp-r/wiki/EmpiricalAirInfiltrationModel</a><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> - Alex<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"> From: <a href="mailto:esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk">esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk">mailto:esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk</a>] On Behalf Of Arianna Sdei Sent: November 28, 2013 14:37 To: <a href="mailto:esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk">esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk</a> Subject: [esp-r] air flow network<o:p></o:p> </div> </div> <o:p> </o:p> Dear ESP-r community,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I am trying to set up an air flow network using the measured air flow rate from pressure tests. To do that I am substituting power law flow components to cracks. I have calculated the coefficient a in the equation : Q = a dP ^b using the measured ACH and I am using b=0.66 but when simulating I get a too high heating load (over 30000 kWh/year for a single storey house) . Does anybody know why this happens and if there is another way to use the measured ACH from the pressure tests to set up the infiltration rate using an air flow network? 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