Is there another step I might be missing? The goal is to get the outdoor surface temperature (p.e) for a PIT and not the human-perceived temperature, and compare the difference between shaded and unshaded areas of the surface.
I have a case involving a kindergarten where some of the courtyard flooring materials, even steel parts or EPDM rubber, reach extremely high temperatures during the hottest hours, making it impossible to walk barefoot.
hey @LaFleur , you can go to the “energy” folder of the folder where your UTCI case was saved, and find and .sql file that was produced when running the energy model. Then you can point the ReadFaceResults component to read the surface temperatures from that file:
Unfortunately, I haven’t reached the desired solution, and I don’t understand two aspects of the results shown in the SQL file.
1: The simulated surfaces are 15 (with a total of 28,112 points). I don’t understand why the .sql file generates 154 branches. N = 24 is correct because I only simulated a single full day.
2: For every hour, the outdoor air temperature result is 18°C, whereas the MRT (Mean Radiant Temperature) result shows a minimum of 16°C, with peaks exceeding 55°C in certain areas. I get the exact same result if I run the simulation directly through OpenStudio, without going through UTCI.
