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BH.oM.Environment.SpaceCriteria.Infiltration

Infiltration gains are defined as the amount of heat or heat loss contributed by cracks in the exterior envelope of the building which allow unconditioned outside air to be introduced to the space

Class structure

Implemented interfaces and base types

The Infiltration is inheriting from the following base type(s) and implements the following interfaces:

Properties

Defining properties

The following properties are defined on the class

Name Type Description Quantity
AirChangeRate double The AirChangeRate indicates the amount of conditioned air lost by infiltration that should be replaced each hour, based on the volume of the space (1 ACH would be 1x the volume of space each hour, if the space is 1m3, it would be 1m3 of outside air per hour) -
AirflowByWallExternalArea double The AirflowByWallExternalArea indicates the amount of air (m3/s) lost by infiltration based on the exterior wall area, that should be replaced within the space. -
AirflowByWallExternalCrackLength double The AirflowByWallExternalCrackLength indicates the amount of air (m3/s) lost by infiltration based on the exterior wall crack length (the sum of the edge lengths), that should be replaced within the space. -
Profile Profile Profiles depict the time period (hours per day, days per week) during which infiltration is contributing to or causing a loss of heat to the space. -

Inherited properties

The following properties are inherited from the base class of the object

Name Type Description Quantity
BHoM_Guid Guid - -
Name string - -
Fragments FragmentSet - -
Tags HashSet<string> - -
CustomData Dictionary<string, object> - -

Code and Schema

C# implementation

C#
public class Infiltration : BH.oM.Base.BHoMObject, BH.oM.Base.IBHoMObject, BH.oM.Base.IObject, BH.oM.Environment.SpaceCriteria.IGain

Assembly: Environment_oM.dll

The C# class definition is available on github:

All history and changes of the class can be found by inspection the history.

JSON Schema implementation

The object is defined as a JSON schema. You can validate a JSON instance against this schema by reference. To do this, use the schema reference below in a validator like this one.

JSON Schema
{
 "$ref" : "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BHoM/BHoM_JSONSchema/develop/Environment_oM/SpaceCriteria/Infiltration.json"
}

The JSON Schema is available on github here: