FYI, I have made the running of this balance_air_boundary_flows method a standard part of translation to OpenStudio/EnergyPlus:
So, if you run the LB Versioner, @MatteoMerli , you should find that you no longer get any “temperature flattening” from the use of air bounadries.
As for this:
I imagine that the main reason why someone would use air boundaries in their model is because they are trying to account for the fact that the air is NOT well mixed between two adjacent spaces and they want to understand the difference in temperature and/or loads that result from this.
If people want to model a set of rooms as well mixed, there are better ways to do this that don’t require you to use AirBoundaries:
- Model the whole set of rooms as a single room with one closed volume around everything.
- Use the HB Set Zone component to make all of the Honeybee Rooms a part of the same EnergyPlus Zone. Zones in EnergyPlus are always assumed to have a single well-mixed air temperature.