Temperature varying input for outdoor temperature in refrigeration cycle

I am trying to model an air-conditioning system, and I need to know if it's possible to implement some sort of a temperature varying input block to simulate real-life outdoor temperature scenarios. (T_env)

I am working on the pre-made model by MathWorks, the Refrigeration Cycle for air conditioning, inside the External Environment subsystem, I was thinking if I can replace 'Air Outlet' and 'Air Inlet' with some sort of post-processed interpolated temperature series in excel format, in the seconds denomination, and let SimuLink run through those temperatures for T-env instead of a constant set at 30 degC.

[Kai Men]

Also, just to clarify, 'Air inlet' and 'Air Outlet' are not constant blocks, they are Reservoirs, so they have parameters. I want to set one of the parameters, 'Reservoir Temperature', to a varying temperature instead of just a constant labelled by fixed variable T_env. Is it possible to store the varying temperatures in a placeholder, and then use the placeholder's variable name inside the Reservoir parameters?

So I store the entire array or list of varying temperatures and store them inside of 'T_real_env' and then use this for my parameter in the Reservoir.

Answer 1

[Sam Chak]

Yes, technically it can be done using the From Workspace block:

This block can read data from the Workspace and into into a Simulink model, providing the data as a signal at the block's output.

[Kai Men]

I encountered a problem where I did this, and the data I provided was a 2 dimensional matrix ( N x 2 ), however after passing it into a MATLAB Function block to set_param, the data becomes a 1 x 1, which caused an error because I tried indexing to dynamically change the temperature and relative humidity for my reservoir.

Where the 1st column acts as time in seconds, and the second column holds the value I want the parameters to change to.