Annex60.Experimental.Benchmarks.AirFlow.Components.Staircase

# .Annex60.Experimental.Benchmarks.AirFlow.Components.Staircase

Zone representing a staircase connecting multiple floor models

## Information

An air volume to represent a staircase element for a scalable air flow benchmark.

#### Assumptions and limitations

This is a very simple room representation. The model is intended to roughly approximate a first order response of the zone to changes in outdoor air temperature. This is achieved by a thermal resistance in model `conRoom` and the capitancy of the mixing volume represented by the value for `mSenFac`. The G-Value of `conRoom` is approximated by the area of one outside wall multiplied with a U-Value of 1 W/(m² K). The value for `mSenFac` has been estimated from comparisons with other room models as shown in Annex60.Experimental.Benchmarks.AirFlow.Examples.ZoneStepResponse. For this model, a value for `mSenFac` slightly lower than in Annex60.Experimental.Benchmarks.AirFlow.Components.SimpleZone has been chosen.

#### Typical use and important parameters

`port_a_toHallway` and `port_b_toHallway` should be connected to the corresponding ports of a hallway model. `port_a_top` and `port_b_top` can be connected to another staircase model via its respective `port_a_bot` and `port_b_bot`.

#### References

Inspired by Annex60.Airflow.Multizone.Validation.ThreeRoomsContam

## Contents

Name | Description
--- | ---
Medium | Medium in the component

## Revisions

- April, 25, 2016 by Marcus Fuchs:
  Removed wrong connection statement. This is for #454, to prevent a warning in OpenModelica.
- September, 2, 2015 by Marcus Fuchs:
  Add start values to the ports and temperature in the `ThermalConductor` and the `PrescripedTemperature` model. This is for #266, to work with Dymola 2016 in pedantic mode.
- February 2015 by Marcus Fuchs:
  First implementation

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