Hello,
I am trying to analyze how insulation thickness affects the cooling and heating demand. I have a simple building with insulation in its walls, roof and ground floor, but upon running the simulation 27 different times with different thicknesses, I have noticed that several of the heating results are exactly the same. It is weird since the only thing I change in the simulations are the thicknesses, which vary by 0.01m.
When represented on a graph you can visually see that it spikes up in those points, when in reality it should be a smooth curve, since heating demand should decrease when insulation is increased. Would anyone know why this could be happening?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
@Cristina Hi, What is the actual construction buildup you are using and changing the insulation thickness in?
I remember the E+ docs talking about how massless materials should have a ‘mass’ material on the exterior otherwise the whole radiation transmittance doesn’t work correctly or something, @chris do you know what I am referring to?
But yea, are you just using 1 massless insulation material for your constructions or are you using a buildup of mass materials?
best
-trevor
Hi @TrevorFedyna, thanks for answering.
I have created all my materials using Opaque Materials, which are later plugged into Opaque Construction and Exterior Subset, which are later all joined with the rest of the construction elements in Construction Set. I believe I haven´t used any massless component so far.
