Mold Simulator – Tutorial 6
Thanks
to U-factors feature of Mold
Simulator 3, it is possible to compute the contribution of every
room to global psi value of a thermal bridge. In this tutorial we’ll
refer to file example13.mos contained in Mold Simulator’s
documentation folder.
Suppose you’ve a T type of thermal
bridge:
It
is very important to create two different section elements (“Top
element” and “Bottom element”) to get correct
results.
We want to use four different boundary conditions for the
internal environments; for this reason you must pay particular
attention to boundaries setup.
1- Every internal boundary must
have the same temperature;
2- Grouping must be by temperature, but
you must disable “Just connected boundaries” option;
3-
A separate U-factor surface must be associated to each boundary;
4-
U-factors of room A must be grouped under “Room A”
U-factors group (same for U-factors of room B).
Now you’re ready to get separate linear thermal transmittance contributions of this thermal bridge simply passing to simulation tab.