Coupled wall participates in Solar Ray Tracing?

- March 19, 2022 at 6:14 pm
  
  tungseng99
  Subscriber
  
  Hi guys, I'm trying to study the effect of thermal mass in a greenhouse dryer. There are two zones which are the floor and air domain in the dryer. DO model and solar ray tracing were applied. The cover of the greenhouse is semi-transparent. The floor is a concrete floor.
  The top surface of the floor is a coupled boundary where the floor-top is adjacent to the floor cell zone and floor-top-shadow is adjacent to the air domain in the dryer.
  My question is, which side of the coupled wall needs to participate in Solar Ray Tracing? Is it both or just the side that is adjacent to the fluid?
  It would be much appreciated if anyone could clear my doubt about this.
  Thank you in advance:)
  Regards,
  Tung
- March 21, 2022 at 5:14 pm
  
  Kishan Konannavar
  Ansys Employee
  
  Hello
  Maybe this document could be of help
  14.3.11. Solar Load Model (ansys.com)
  
  Regards
  Kishan
- March 23, 2022 at 3:24 pm
  
  Swathi V. V.
  Ansys Employee
  
  Hi tungseng99 The floor top wall (adjacent to the solid zone) will only affect the solid zone upon which it is attached. Hence the floor-top wall become significant only when the solid zone is participating in the radiation.
  
  Regards Swathi

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