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Pichurov, George; Angelova, Radostina; Simova, Iskra; Rodrigo, Iosu; Stankov, Peter

CFD based study of thermal sensation of occupants using thermophysiological model. Part I : Mathematical model, implementation and simulation of the room air flow effect

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  • Media type: E-Article
  • Title: CFD based study of thermal sensation of occupants using thermophysiological model. Part I : Mathematical model, implementation and simulation of the room air flow effect : Mathematical model, implementation and simulation of the room air flow effect
  • Contributor: Pichurov, George; Angelova, Radostina; Simova, Iskra; Rodrigo, Iosu; Stankov, Peter
  • imprint: Emerald, 2014
  • Published in: International Journal of Clothing Science and Technology
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1108/ijcst-03-2013-0030
  • ISSN: 0955-6222
  • Keywords: Polymers and Plastics ; General Business, Management and Accounting ; Materials Science (miscellaneous) ; Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)
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  • Description: <jats:sec> <jats:title content-type="abstract-heading">Purpose</jats:title> <jats:p> – The purpose of this paper is to integrate a thermophysiological human body model into a CFD simulation to predict the dry and latent body heat loss, the clothing, skin and core temperature, skin wettedness and periphery blood flow distribution. The integration of the model allows to generate more realistic boundary conditions for the CFD simulation and allows to predict the room distribution of temperature and humidity originating from the occupants. </jats:p> </jats:sec> <jats:sec> <jats:title content-type="abstract-heading">Design/methodology/approach</jats:title> <jats:p> – A two-dimensional thermophysiological body model is integrated into a CFD simulation to predict the interaction between the human body and room environment. Parameters varied were clothing insulation and metabolic activity and supply air temperature. The body dry and latent heat loss, skin wettedness, skin and core temperatures were predicted together with the room air temperature and humidity. </jats:p> </jats:sec> <jats:sec> <jats:title content-type="abstract-heading">Findings</jats:title> <jats:p> – Clothing and metabolic activity were found to have different level of impact on the dry and latent heat loss. Heat loss was more strongly affected by changes in the metabolic rate than in the clothing insulation. Latent heat loss was found to exhibit much larger variations compared to dry heat loss due to the high latent heat potential of water. </jats:p> </jats:sec> <jats:sec> <jats:title content-type="abstract-heading">Originality/value</jats:title> <jats:p> – Unlike similar studies featuring naked human body, clothing characteristics like sensible resistance and vapor permeability were accommodated into the present study. A method to ensure numerical stability of the integrated simulation was developed and implemented to produce robust and reliable simulation performance.</jats:p> </jats:sec>