Figure 1: Boundary Conditions dialog window

Figure 2: Boundary Conditions database dialog window

Figure 3: Window Frame Type

Figure 4: Window Frame boundary conditions dialog window

Name

Here the name of the boundary condition is defined. You cannot leave the field blank. And the name must be unique, i.e. it cannot be identical to the name of another boundary condition on the same page. Aside from these restrictions, you can choose any name.

...

After clicking on the "..." button, a dialog window appears with the database. From the database, you can choose an entry. The boundary condition properties will be assumed.

Color

Determines the boundary condition color, which will appear in the model.

Type

Type of boundary condition. The following types of boundary conditions are supported:

- Temperature, h-value: For boundaries, where the air temperature and the heat transfer coefficient are present. This type of boundary condition is used for normal boundary conditions.

- Temperature (Dirichlet): For boundaries, where the surface temperature is given (e.g. the entering temperature for a floor heating system).

- Heat Flux (Neumann): For boundaries, where the heat flux for a surface is given.

- Heat Flux, Temperature (Cauchy): For boundaries, where the heat flux and the surface temperature are given.

- Source/Sink: For the performance of linear sources and sinks (see Heat Source Tool).

- Radiation: For the definition of surface radiation properties (emissivities) of air cavities, if the surface properties are calculated by flixo (cf. Option dialog window cavities).

- Window Frame: For interior boundaries when calculating the frame U-value according to EN ISO 10077-2 (cf. tutorial 4). The line properties, the name of the 2 dependent boundary conditions for normal domains, and the domains with reduced h-values can be adjusted by clicking on the Boundaries button and entering the values in the dialog window (see Figure 4) that appears.

q (Neumann, Cauchy)

Heat stream density on the surface.

θ (Cauchy, Dirichlet, Clima)

Surface temperature (for Dirichlet BC or Cauchy BC) or air temperature (for Climate BC and window frame BC).

h

Heat transfer coefficient

The heat transfer resistance R can optionally be entered at this point as well. The settings can be determined in the Options dialog window.

ε

Emissivity between 0 and 1.

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