[EnergyPlus_Support] Surface outside tempearture vs solar radiation.

["finadz82" <finadz82@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi..

I tried to simulate a small office building in a hot humid country 
Malaysia with intense solar radiation. The longitudinal/glass area of 
the building is facing east. To validate the result from E+ i compared 
the data with field measurement. When i simulate the building, i found 
that E+ gave much smaller surface outside temperature (roof and 
window) reading compare to the field measurement result. Eg: Roof 
surface outside temperature at 12 pm measured was 58 C but simulated 
was only 35 C. It seems like the solar radiation did not give impact 
to the roof/window temperature in my simulation but the result of wall 
outside surface temperature is resaonable with my field measurement. 
Could anyone explain the heat transfer and temperature of the 
roof/window? Material of the roof is metal roofing and window is 6mm 
single clear glass.


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