{"id":1042,"date":"2016-05-12T16:20:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T14:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.htflux.com\/en\/?page_id=1042"},"modified":"2016-05-12T17:25:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T15:25:28","slug":"surface-temperature-simulation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.htflux.com\/en\/documentation\/measuring-tools\/surface-temperature-simulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Surface temperature tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The surface temperature tool<\/h1>\n<p>This tool enables you to easily determine the position and value of the minimum, maximum or average temperature of a surface.<br \/>\nThe surface can be either an internal one (interface between different materials) or an external one (touching a boundary condition\/climate).<\/p>\n<p>To setup the tool you will have to take two steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>define the surface\/interface you want to measure<\/li>\n<li>define the geometric region where you want determine surface temperatures<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Defining a surface<\/h2>\n<p>To tool always determines the temperatures on surfaces, either external or internal (interfaces).\u00a0 To define the surface\/interface you are interested in just select the appropriate materials on either side within the properties dialog of the tool:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.htflux.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/05\/temperature-surface-selection.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1053\" src=\"http:\/\/www.htflux.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/05\/temperature-surface-selection.png\" alt=\"temperature-surface-selection\" width=\"469\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.htflux.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/05\/temperature-surface-selection.png 469w, https:\/\/www.htflux.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/05\/temperature-surface-selection-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/www.htflux.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/05\/temperature-surface-selection-200x150.png 200w, https:\/\/www.htflux.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/05\/temperature-surface-selection-325x245.png 325w, https:\/\/www.htflux.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/05\/temperature-surface-selection-100x75.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the case displayed above, the temperatures on the internal side of the element (touching an internal climate boundary condition)\u00a0 will be measured. Since all materials on the left side have been selected, the measurement will not be restricted to certain materials.<\/p>\n<p>You can either define the surface by manually selecting the items in either lists or by using the speed-buttons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>All to internal climate<\/em>: will define the inner surface of your model, when any material touches a boundary condition defined as &#8220;internal&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><em>All to external climate<\/em>:\u00a0will define the outer surface of your model, when any material touches a boundary condition defined as &#8220;external&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><em>All<\/em>: use this button to quickly select any material in the according list<\/li>\n<li><em>None<\/em>: use this button to quickly unselect all materials in the according list (to manually select materials afterwards)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In building science often the minimum internal surface temperature is of interest. To setup the tools for this purpose you will only have to click on the speed button &#8220;all to int. climate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Defining a region for the measurement<\/h2>\n<p>Apart from defining the interface you will also have to restrict the measurement to a certain region. This can easily be done by dropping one or more regions onto the specific measurement tool within the <a title=\"Project manager\" href=\"http:\/\/www.htflux.com\/en\/documentation\/project-manager\/\">project manager<\/a>. Just drag the region down while pressing the left mouse button and release the button over the desired measuring tool:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1055\" src=\"http:\/\/www.htflux.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/05\/Drag-Region-Temperature.png\" alt=\"Drag-Region-Temperature\" width=\"518\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.htflux.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/05\/Drag-Region-Temperature.png 518w, https:\/\/www.htflux.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/05\/Drag-Region-Temperature-300x119.png 300w, https:\/\/www.htflux.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/05\/Drag-Region-Temperature-325x129.png 325w, https:\/\/www.htflux.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/05\/Drag-Region-Temperature-100x40.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more on measurement areas here: <a title=\"Defining a measurement area\" href=\"http:\/\/www.htflux.com\/en\/documentation\/measuring-tools\/defining-a-measurement-area\/\">defining a measurement area.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Enhanced features of the tool<\/h2>\n<p>This tool can also be used to calculate additional key-figures.<br \/>\nPlease select the topic you are interested in:<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">\u00bb Internal surface temperature factor f*Rsi<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">\u00bb Dew point temperature<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">\u00bb Mold growth temperature<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The surface temperature tool This tool enables you to easily determine the position and value of the minimum, maximum or average temperature of a surface. The surface can be either an internal one (interface between different materials) or an external one (touching a boundary condition\/climate). To setup the tool you will have to take two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1003,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"pageTemp-userGuide_NEW.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1042","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.htflux.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.htflux.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.htflux.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.htflux.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.htflux.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.htflux.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1062,"href":"https:\/\/www.htflux.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1042\/revisions\/1062"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.htflux.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.htflux.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}