A Versatile Procedure for Calculating Heat Transfer Through Windows

Publication Type

Journal Article

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Abstract

Advances in window technologies and the desire to standardize the reporting of standardswindow heat transfer indices have necessitated the development of a comprehensivesanalytical procedure for calculating heat transfer through windows. This paper showsshow complete window heat transfer can be considered as the area-weighted sum of thesthree window component areas: the center-of-glass area, the edge-of-glass area, and thesframe area. Algorithms for calculating heat transfer through each of these areas and forscombining these to calculate total window indices are presented.

Journal

ASHRAE Transactions

Volume

95

Year of Publication

1989

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