EnergyPlus does not report QLat_flow and QPeo_flow

[mwetter]

EnergyPlus does not output the values for the latent heat gains of the zone and the heat emitted by people. See https://lbl-srg.github.io/soep/softwareArchitecture.html#coupling-of-the-envelope-model for the specification.

To reproduce, simulate

Advanced.StoreProtectedVariables = true;
simulateModel("Buildings.ThermalZones.EnergyPlus.Examples.SingleFamilyHouse.Unconditioned", stopTime=432000, method="Cvode", tolerance=1e-06, resultFile="Unconditioned");

and look at QPeo_flow and QLat_flow.

This was tested on the master branch (commit 558ac77).

[kbenne]

@mwetter To address this issue, I tagged v0.1.2. The contents of this tag are v0.1.1 plus...

1. The QLat_flow fix
2. QPeo_flow fix
3. Version bump from v0.1.1 to v0.1.2

NREL/Spawn@v0.1.1...v0.1.2

I will also merge these commits into the main develop branch. CI Builds are still running at the moment.

[mwetter]

@kbenne : The CI tests fail on https://gitlab.com/kylebenne/spawn/-/pipelines?scope=all&page=1 Can you please let me know when this is ready to implement (with EnergyPlus 9.5 so we can patch Buildings 8.0.0)

[kbenne]

yes. I've been working on it. Couple of issues im addressing. 1. Back in version 0.1.0 we used a service called bintray to manage third party depndencies which is no longer available, so I had to back port the replacement. 2. I had to reimage the Mac CI machine. The builds are rerunning at this moment, so we'll see.

[mwetter]

Thanks

[mwetter]

@kbenne : The results are not plausible. This input file has 3 people, and QPeo_flow is about 240 kW. See results below.

simulateModel("Buildings.ThermalZones.EnergyPlus.Examples.SingleFamilyHouse.Unconditioned", stopTime=432000, method="Cvode", tolerance=1e-06, resultFile="Unconditioned");

[kbenne]

yeah those people are putting off some heat! big lunch?

[kbenne]

I'll take a look. the latent flow looks reasonable to me. Obviously not the people.

[kbenne]

@mwetter I posted a new build with correction. https://gitlab.com/kylebenne/spawn/-/pipelines/393199586

The amateur here gave you energy instead of power. That is embarrassing. I tightened up the unit test a little. You might take a look. https://github.com/NREL/Spawn/blob/894d972d4160a7e1b3e9ea0f24057156ce1be133/test/test_single_family_house.cpp#L155