Yes. The lollowing literature may be useful for your research
Abstract; After validation, the model was implemented in TRNSYS simulation program. .Moisture transfer in the material is calculated, based on material properties, relative humidity in the room, initial relative humidity in the material and ambient temperature
Ref: PREDICTING INDOOR RELATIVE HUMIDITY USING BUILDING ENERGY SIMULATION TOOLS by Kamil Feret
www.academia.edu/.../PREDICTING_INDOOR_RELATIVE_HUMIDIT...
You might want to look at the various WUFI simulation tools from Fraunhofer IBP. http://www.wufi.de/index_e.html
Depending on what level of information you need (one dimensional, two dimensional or whole building) there are a range of tools including their new WUFI Passive tool that can predict indoor temperature and RH based on outdoor temperature and RH.
To be fair most dynamic simulation tools (e.g EnergyPlus, IES, TRNSYS, Vabi, IDA ICE etc) will provide this level of info, and a whole lot more. But the advantage of coupled Heat Air and Moisture (HAM) tools is that they also account for transient moisture movement through the building fabric itself.
Thank You for Your useful suggestions. But I think transys is for heating and cooling loads in building. I am searching for such a tool which in terms of materials in building envelope.
Recommend that you take a look at WUFI Pro, WUFI Plus, WUFI 2D and WUFI Passive - all model heat and moisture transfer in building envelopes http://www.wufi.de/index_e.html
I think tools like EnergyPlus can do very well on this. Apart from heating and cooling loads which is what they are meant for, they have very good competence for dealing with materials, natural ventilation, etc.
You could try the HAMT module in EnergyPlus. That does heat and moisture transport in the building envelope, coupled to indoor and outdoor conditions, as well as dynamic indoor temperature calculations.
Thank You for Yous very useful suggestions. I will go through Energy Plus Software.
Very true. EnergyPlus may be a bit hard to start with.
I am not sure about ecotect's capability for this as the proper modelling of materials and precise computation of heat flow may require the use of finite difference algorithm or atleast conduction transfer function with heat balance.
Design builder could be a good option as it uses EnergyPlus as its calculation engine but it is not free. Free trial is available for a month.
You may wish to use some other interface for EnergyPlus like OpenStudio.
true, ecotect is a program for architectural design. it may not be quite accurate. the reason i suggest it is that it can also refer to energyplus as the calculation engine, just like design builder. also there are other simulation tool like Dest and DOE-2, which are easy to start with.
The combined Heat and Moisture Transfer methodology used in EnergyPlus can be found here http://bigladdersoftware.com/epx/docs/8-1/engineering-reference/page-018.html#combined-heat-and-moisture-transfer-hamt-model
This is based largely on the work of Künzel, H.M. (1995) Simultaneous Heat and Moisture Transport in Building Components. One- and two-dimensional calculation using simple parameters. IRB Verlag 1995. As implemented originally in the WUFI software
With WUFI®Plus you can perform dynamic simulation for the coupled heat and moisture transfer in entire buildings.
see http://www.wufi-pro.com/ for more details
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