Predicting Human Thermal Comfort in Automobiles National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Rugh, J. (John), author.

Conference Name:

Vehicle Thermal Management Systems Conference & Exposition (2005-05-10 : Toronto, Canada)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 2005

Summary:

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has developed a suite of thermal comfort tools to help develop smaller and more efficient climate control systems in automobiles. The tools consist of a thermal comfort manikin, physiological model, and psychological model that are linked together to assess comfort in a transient non-homogeneous environment. The manikin, which consists of 120 individually controlled zones, mimics the human body by heating, sweating, and breathing. The physiological model is a 40,000-node numerical simulation of the human body. The model receives heat loss data from the manikin and predicts the human physiological response and skin temperatures. Based on human subject test data, the psychological model takes the temperatures of the human and predicts thermal sensation and comfort. The manikin and models have been validated against physiological data that are available in the literature and test subject data that are used to develop the psychological model. This paper presents details on NREL's thermal comfort tools and the validation testing performed

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Publisher Number:

2005-01-2008

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license