[EnergyPlus_Support] Energy Plus and thermal bridges or ...!

["Farhang Tahmasebi" <farhang223@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi
I'm a beginner, and I need your help.

I have created a cubic room (3*3*3m) in energy plus with a window 
(1*1m) on the 
south facade. I have also made air temperature of this room constant 
throughout the year. I ran this model in 2 ways:

1.with adiabatic opaque surfaces (with extremely high thermal 
resistance)
2.with regular opaque surfaces (with regular thermal resistance such 
as 0.5 W/m2K)

I observed that conductive heat loss of the window in model (1) is 
about 60 percent higher than that in the model (2).

Is it because of thermal bridge effect? And does energy plus consider 
thermal bridges?
Or is it because of something that I'm not aware of?

Thanks
Farhang



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