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Details on Medium

Information on the Medium dialog in the Pipe and Air Duct Network Calculations of the Heating, Cooling and Ventilation disciplines.

Select a medium, that is already stored as a file or enter the thermophysical properties of you own medium.

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Project tabDisciplineAnalyse tabSettings ...Medium...

Applies to: Heating, Cooling, Ventilation.

Dialog global medium Linear Revit

Name

Enter a name for the Medium. The name is independent from the file name of the external medium file.

Table of thermophysical properties

Column

Description

t

Enter the temperature for which the following characteristic values of the medium apply.

rho

Density of the substance at the given temperature.

cp

Specific heat capacity of the substance.

ny

Viscosity of the substance.

External medium file

If you have entered own thermophysical properties, the table can be saved and loaded as an external file using the Load and Save functions. If a file is loaded, the medium data are also saved in the project to make sure that the values are available for all participants without exchanging the medium file.