  Heat flux meters are used for measuring the heat flux densities going through
walls, usually at quasi-steady state. The limitations of heat flux meters under
dynamic conditions are well documented in the literature; nonetheless there is
a theoretical limitation which is mostly not considered and should be also
taken into account. Since heat transfer is a dissipative process, it would be
expected to obtain transfer functions which act as low pass filters.
Nonetheless, this paper shows that the transfer functions modeling heat flow
rate may become high pass filters, which is against the physical evidence. In
order to show this theoretical limitation of the heat flux meters, the heat
equation is transformed in different classes of models, from partial
differential equations to transfer functions related to surface temperatures
and heat flux density going through a wall.
