Non-glazed apertures Modelling in Tropical Climate

Hi,@Srijon

If you are not very clear about what your calculation objective is, then I do not recommend using this method. Although in some cases, this method can be used to simulate a controlled semi-open area.

However, in the insulation and heat preservation design requirements for the building envelope structures in the vast majority of regions, the boundary between the non-sealed areas and the sealed areas will be designed according to the requirements of the outdoor side, such as the exterior walls, roofs, and suspended floor slabs. That is to say, these protective structures are designed in such a way that they need to be truly associated with the convection of outdoor air and solar radiation. If you create the two regions separately, and one of them uses the method you employed for the search, the boundary conditions between the two regions are not necessarily accurate, and the algorithms for heat calculation are not necessarily applicable (especially the default air convection algorithm), and the results may not be more precise than the process I suggested.

Similarly, this semi-open corridor enables the Program to be less than perfectly accurate in its simulation, although it may seem comprehensive in terms of process, it is completely meaningless because these heat sources do not require any equipment to handle, and they will be diluted like a bottle of cola being poured into the ocean through natural convection, thus unable to affect any closed spaces dominated by humans, which are the ones that should focus on thermal balance.

If you want to reflect certain aspects of total energy consumption, such as outdoor lighting, you can refer to this post and implement it using the SDK (this issue may arise in the practice of Ladybug Tools and LEED).

:grinning: However, I need to point out that all these suggestions are directly based on my own experience. If other users have better suggestions, you can also refer to them. Maybe I might be wrong somewhere.