Coupling outer-body airflow and inner-body thermoregulation models to predict thermal comfort in non-uniform environments

Gao Naiping; Jianlei Niu; Zhang Hui

Coupling outer-body airflow and inner-body thermoregulation models to predict thermal comfort in non-uniform environments

Gao Naiping, Jianlei Niu, Zhang Hui

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

Abstract

In this study, we developed a numerical thermal manikin (NTM) with inner-body thermoregulation functions to investigate the local and overall thermal comfort in non-uniform thermal environments. The effect of interaction between human body and his/her environment was modeled by transferring air condition data from computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation into a thermoregulation model, feeding back the body surface temperatures from the inner-body model as boundary conditions to CFD, and then iterating until convergence. Application of this approach in the evaluation of two kinds of personalized ventilation systems was demonstrated. Comparison with some of the experimental results showed that it was able to predict the thermal comfort level with reasonable accuracy.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IBPSA 2009 - International Building Performance Simulation Association 2009
Pages	1352-1359
Number of pages	8
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2009
Event	11th International IBPSA Conference - Building Simulation 2009, BS 2009 - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 27 Jul 2007 → 30 Jul 2007

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Conference	11th International IBPSA Conference - Building Simulation 2009, BS 2009
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	27/07/07 → 30/07/07

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Computer Science Applications
Building and Construction
Architecture
Modelling and Simulation

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Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

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