Benchmarking EHC

[LllC-mmd]

• compare EHC with results from scipy's 1D heat conduction solver
• compare results with two types of lower BCs: fixed temperature and zero-flux

[LllC-mmd]

If EHC is OK, we will move onto the testing of different land cover composition using SampleData from SUEWS

• paved
• grass

[LllC-mmd]

• EHC-based 1D heat conduction simulation

Case I: fixed temperature boundary where $T_L = 12$ and $T_R = 10$. (Initial temperature is 20)

Case II: time-varying temperature boundary where $T_L = 10\cos(0.002\pi t)$ and $T_R = 10\sin(0.002\pi t)$. (Initial temperature is 0.0)

[sunt05]

simulated surface temperatures of a paved surface on a summer day using different heat conductivities:

[sunt05]

these simple tests show the acceptable performance of the module - a more comprehensive evaluation will be left for another dedicated issue/thread.