Fix Tabular Annual Average Values with Unit Conversion

[mitchute]

Pull request overview

• Fixes Incorrect annual average for monthly IP temperature outputs #11387

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[mitchute]

Before and after

[mitchute]

Walk through

[mitchute]

Unrelated. Pinning the README badges to the develop branch.

[mitchute]

We have to divide reslt(lMonth) by the monthly duration, convert the units, then multiply back in the monthly duration so the annual average can be calculated later.

[mitchute]

No diffs are shown here because CI only runs design day simulations. Running regressions without forcing DD should show diffs on PurchAirTables, PurchAirTables_wAnnual, and _SmallOffice_Dulles test files.

[rraustad]

The defect file table results do look good now and nearly within the summation tolerance due to rounding. Certainly much better than the 17.61 F previously reported. I used the same weather file as the defect file and matched the monthly temps. The table shows an average of 49.57 F while the sum of the monthly values divided by 12 is 49.45 F. A difference of 0.12 F for the first column. If rounding gives a monthly value within 0.005 F then 0.005 * 12 = 0.06 should be the max diff between the reported and calculated average? I was hoping to see each of the table averages to be within 0.06 of my calculated average. It's pretty darn close so maybe good enough, or maybe my tolerance value is off for some reason? Adding the weighted average of these monthly temperatures shows an exact match to the reported table values.

[mitchute]

The averages are weighted by the duration of each month. If you do that, I think you'll see it all line right up.

[rraustad]

I replaced the figure above with the weighted average at bottom right. Right on the money.