<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><base href="x-msg://6/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Arianna,<div><br></div><div>the information about the model is a bit scarce.</div><div>- do you have an afn defined?</div><div>- how is this affected by closing doors?</div><div>- could closing doors reduce night time cooling (if any)?</div><div>- how is the AC modelled? Do ducts run through zones that may become warmer by closing doors?</div><div>- how do surface temperatures of the living room change after closing doors (i.e., does the bedroom become hot and what is the construction between these zones)?</div><div>- is the cooling load absolutely higher or relatively?</div><div><br></div><div>… and maybe a few more I am not thinking about, right now.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Achim</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 25, 2014, at 6:23 PM, Arianna Sdei <<a href="mailto:A.Sdei@brighton.ac.uk">A.Sdei@brighton.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Dear All,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">I am running some simulations in a multizone model of a single storey house with one bedroom and one living room. I am controlling some air conditioning in the living room only from May to September. So, I thought that by closing the door of the living room I would get a lower cooling load. But actually if I close all doors in the house I get a slightly higher cooling load and a lower heating load. Do you know why? 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