I am working on modeling the thermodynamics of a ventilated tent. The tent is a 3D drawing in Grasshopper/Rhino CAD environment. I use Honeybee to link the Grasshopper/Rhino CAD environment to EnergyPlus.
The tent is made from one interior tent with a bigger tent (that includes vestibules) around it. There is an air gap of 10 cm between the two tents. I now modeled the tent in 3 zones (vestibule 1, vestibule 2 and interior tent) and set the construction of the interior tent roof and “exterior” walls to be tent fabric, air gap, tent fabric. However it is not still air in the gap. Through the long side windows and doors, air can move in and out of this gap so it’s more ventilation. Is there a way to model this better?
I also tried to just model the two tents and use them both in the model but then they don’t seem to be interacting with each other.
Grasshopper script for tent modeled as 3 zones
Grasshopper script for tent modeled as 2 zones