Heat flows in a full scale room exposed to natural climate

摘要

It is, with the thermal models used in today's building simulation programs, possible to calculate the major part of the heat transfer in a room with an ambient outer wall. However, there are some parameters these models calculate with less or unknown accuracy: heat flows in poorly insulated walls or windows, heat flows in a room exposed to strong solar radiation, temperatures on the inside of ambient outer walls and windows. The reason for these difficulties is mainly that there is a lack of experimental data for the detailed energy transfer in a window exposed to ambient climate and the convective energy transport in a room exposed to ambient climate. The aim of this study was to investigate the detailed energy transfer at an ambient wall including window. The investigation included both theoretic analysis and measurements performed under conditions close to the real situation with ambient climate. The method used in this study was to estimate the heat flow through wall and window from measured solar radiation on the facade and temperatures. The temperatures were measured inside the wall, on the window panes, in the air, at inner surfaces etc. The longwave radiation was calculated from surface temperatures. The convective heat transfer was calculated as the difference between the heat flow through the building element and the longwave radiation. This indirect way of measuring the convective heat transfer was not as accurate as other more direct techniques but it was however a method which permitted measurement under realistic conditions 27 refs, 90 figs, 7 tabs