Why EnergyPlus does not report Conduction Heat Transfer for Window surfaces ?
I am studying and analyzing the Heat Balance across walls and windows of my single floor single zone box type model (developed in DesignBuilder and exported to EnergyPLus)
Later, I manually reported a lot of surface level outputs in IDF file in EnergyPlus (v23.1).
I noticed the Heat Balance is coming out right for Wall surfaces and for Net Heat Transfer across a WINDOW as well. However, there is no CONDUCTION reported for WINDOWS. I looked at all the outputs that EnergyPlus could report, but "EnergyPlus does not report any Conduction Heat Transfer for Windows" . WHY ?
I mean in Reality, there is some conduction heat gain and loss going on across windows. Then Why EnergyPlus is not considering it. Is it something that EnergyPlus does not distribute Window into several nodes and treat window as a single node which has a single Temperature (through whole width) ? OR AM i missing something.
Can Please someone explain.
I can share my Model and Excel sheet containing the heat balance analysis
Thank you for having this query





