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how to model a heating plate with constant temperature inside a building

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Hi there. For scholar purpose I would like to model a heating or cooling plate maintained to a constant temperature inside a building. Let say this plate is on a table inside a simple cubic building

I want this plate to exchange heat by convection with the thermal Zone (natural convection, no fan). The convective flux should be : hc(TzoneTplate)S. I would like to specify this in energyPlus. Specially I would like to be able ton provide the hc convective heat transfer coefficient.

How can I model this ? Reading the documentation I've seen nothing to set up a "surface" or "object" at constant temperature. Do I've to pass by an HVAC loop plant system ? Do I have to model my plate as a "floating surface" inside my building with my geometry preprocessor (then beeing not attached to any other wall ?)

In which type of object can I provide heat exchange coefficient ? I've learned about Internal mass and internal gain but I'm not sure this is good.

Thanks a lot.

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answered 3 years ago

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Anyone to help ? I would be very grateful.

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