Course Details

Thermal engineering

Academic Year 2025/26

BHB005 course is part of 3 study plans

​ BPA-SI Summer Semester 2nd year

​ BPC-SI / VS Summer Semester 2nd year

​ BKC-SI Summer Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. Milan Ostrý, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Building Structures

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Credits

4 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

To offer to students of all faculties

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289611

Lecture

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction, motivation, historical development, related laws, regulations, standards, heat transfer.
  • 2. Thermal properties of building materials, sources of information, definition of thermal comfort.
  • 3. Boundary conditions for calculations, definition of steady state thermal field, thermal resistance, total therma resistance.
  • 4. Thermal transmittance - calculation when considering one-dimensional or two-dimensional heat transfer, evaluation, influence of reflective properties of materials.
  • 5. The average (overal) thermal transmittance of the building envelope,the energy label of the building envelope.
  • 6. Temperatures in building structures in steady state temperature field, lowest internal surface temperature of the structure, calculation of the temperature factor at the internal surface and its evaluation.
  • 7. Calculation of the thermal transmittance when of one-dimensional heat transfer cannot be applied, thermal bridges, linear and point thermal transmittance
  • 8. Water vapour tranfer through the building structures, calculation of the interstitial condensation , calculation of the annual balance of interstitial evaporation and condensation and evaluation.
  • 9. Description of non steady temperature field, thermal damping, drop of the touch temperature of the floors and its evaluation.
  • 10. Thermal room stability in summer and winter, definition of critical room, evaluation.
  • 11. Introduction to the energy performance of the building, introduction to the energy performance certificate of the building.
  • 12. Air permeability of building envelope, airtightness measurement, diagnostics of building structures by infrared thermography method.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction, calculation of thermal resistance and thermal transmittance of existing structures.
  • 2. Design of new structures, thermal insulation of existing structures, drawings of renovated building.
  • 3. Calculation and assessment of thermal transmittance of new structures.
  • 4. Design of windows and doors, calculation of thermal transmittance.
  • 5. Calculation and assessment of average thermal transmittance.
  • 6. Simplified calculation of thermal transmittance of the composite structure.
  • 7. Internal surface temperature and temperature factor at the internal surface .
  • 8. Temperature evolution in the structure.
  • 9. Interstitial condensation.
  • 10. Annual balance of condensed and evaporated water vapour.
  • 11. Assessment of selected structures with the use of selected software.
  • 12. Informative calculation of two-dimensional temperature field using software, credit.