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🐝 :fire: Honeybee extension for energy simulation
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Add an option to change `HeatBalanceAlgorithm` property in idf #1008

Open JunfXiao opened 7 months ago

JunfXiao commented 7 months ago

Hi,

recently I tried to do the combined heat and moisture transfer simulation with honeybee and energyplus. This needs to change the default Algorithm in the idf file from

HeatBalanceAlgorithm,
  ConductionTransferFunction,
  200;

to

 HeatBalanceAlgorithm,
  CombinedHeatAndMoistureFiniteElement,    !- changed here
  200;

I searched the python code in the repo but find no code related.

Could you please help to find out where this property is written in the code or a proper way to customize this?

Thanks!

chriswmackey commented 5 months ago

Hi @JunfXiao ,

Sorry for the late response. This is one of the many EnergyPlus inputs that we have not (yet) exposed in honeybee-energy. You can always change this property with an OpenStudio measure that you include in your honeybee-energy simulation but I understand that it would be nice to change it with SimulationParameters.

We'll get to it eventually but it may be a low priority unless several other people thumbs up the issue or post here that it would make their lives a lot easier.