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### Script for visualizing heat loss from surfaces

I find myself in the need of a diagnostic for visualizing heat transfer through various surfaces either on a design day, monthly or annual basis.

Anybody else on this forum come across a similar need? Any open source solutions?

My solution reads in the following variables and identifies appropriate surfaces (walls, ceilings, windows, doors, etc) from the SQLite database. It's a python script.

       'Surface Outside Face Conduction Heat Loss Rate [W]',
'Surface Outside Face Net Thermal Radiation Heat Gain Rate [W]',
'Surface Outside Face Convection Heat Gain Rate [W]',
'Zone Infiltration Total Heat Loss Energy [J]',
'Zone Infiltration Total Heat Gain Energy [J]',
'Surface Window Heat Loss Rate [W]', # Total heat transfer through window


The thing is I get strange results which I am not confident in. This could be due to several reasons such as not characterizing convective, conductive or radiative heat transfer in my outputs. Could be for other reasons.

Would like to compare solutions to others to build more confidence in these types of diagnostics.

### Script for visualizing heat loss from surfaces

I find myself in the need of a diagnostic for visualizing heat transfer through various surfaces either on a design day, monthly or annual basis.

Anybody else on this forum come across a similar need? Any open source solutions?

My solution reads in the following variables and identifies appropriate surfaces (walls, ceilings, windows, doors, etc) from the SQLite database. It's a python script.

       'Surface Outside Face Conduction Heat Loss Rate [W]',
'Surface Outside Face Net Thermal Radiation Heat Gain Rate [W]',
'Surface Outside Face Convection Heat Gain Rate [W]',
'Zone Infiltration Total Heat Loss Energy [J]',
'Zone Infiltration Total Heat Gain Energy [J]',
'Surface Window Heat Loss Rate [W]', # Total heat transfer through window


The thing is I get strange results which I am not confident in. This could be due to several reasons such as not characterizing convective, conductive or radiative heat transfer in my outputs. Could be for other reasons.

Would like to compare solutions to others to build more confidence in these types of diagnostics.

 3 retagged __AmirRoth__ 4388 ●5 ●16 http://bleedinggreenna...

### Script for visualizing heat loss from surfaces

I find myself in the need of a diagnostic for visualizing heat transfer through various surfaces either on a design day, monthly or annual basis.

Anybody else on this forum come across a similar need? Any open source solutions?

My solution reads in the following variables and identifies appropriate surfaces (walls, ceilings, windows, doors, etc) from the SQLite database. It's a python script.

       'Surface Outside Face Conduction Heat Loss Rate [W]',
'Surface Outside Face Net Thermal Radiation Heat Gain Rate [W]',
'Surface Outside Face Convection Heat Gain Rate [W]',
'Zone Infiltration Total Heat Loss Energy [J]',
'Zone Infiltration Total Heat Gain Energy [J]',
'Surface Window Heat Loss Rate [W]', # Total heat transfer through window


The thing is I get strange results which I am not confident in. This could be due to several reasons such as not characterizing convective, conductive or radiative heat transfer in my outputs. Could be for other reasons.

Would like to compare solutions to others to build more confidence in these types of diagnostics.

 4 retagged __AmirRoth__ 4388 ●5 ●16 http://bleedinggreenna...

### Script for visualizing heat loss from surfaces

I find myself in the need of a diagnostic for visualizing heat transfer through various surfaces either on a design day, monthly or annual basis.

Anybody else on this forum come across a similar need? Any open source solutions?

My solution reads in the following variables and identifies appropriate surfaces (walls, ceilings, windows, doors, etc) from the SQLite database. It's a python script.

       'Surface Outside Face Conduction Heat Loss Rate [W]',
'Surface Outside Face Net Thermal Radiation Heat Gain Rate [W]',
'Surface Outside Face Convection Heat Gain Rate [W]',
'Zone Infiltration Total Heat Loss Energy [J]',
'Zone Infiltration Total Heat Gain Energy [J]',
'Surface Window Heat Loss Rate [W]', # Total heat transfer through window


The thing is I get strange results which I am not confident in. This could be due to several reasons such as not characterizing convective, conductive or radiative heat transfer in my outputs. Could be for other reasons.

Would like to compare solutions to others to build more confidence in these types of diagnostics.