Impact of diffuse solar radiation on HAM simulation accuracy

Abstract

Advance in the numerical simulation models brings higher need for more accuracy outdoor boundary conditions - climate data sets. With influence of the urban heat islands, measured climate on the meadows, far from pawed surfaces creates uncertainty in the simulation. Another problem is the modelling of solar radiation impact on the surface temperatures. Solar radiation heats up the surface of the structure and increase the speed of vapor transport. To obtain correct results, global and diffuse solar radiation is needed in the HAM software. In this paper, influence of the diffuse part of solar radiation is analyzed. As it would be shown, correct modeling of the solar radiation, both global and diffuse is very important to reach good precision. This analysis is done in software WUFI Pro and compared with the experimental measurement of the wooden wall fragments.