Investigation of human thermal comfort under highly transient conditions for automotive applications-Part 1: Experimental design and human subject testing implementation

ASHRAE Transactions

Volumn 109 PART 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 885-897

  Guam, Yanzheng Don ^a   Hosni, Mohammad H ^a   Jones, Byron W ^b   Gielda, Thomas P ^c  

^a Sunflower Networking Group   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VISTEON CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; CLIMATE CONTROL; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ERGONOMICS; HEAT FLUX; PHYSIOLOGY; STANDARDS;

COMFORT EVALUATION; HIGHLY TRANSIENT CONDITIONS; HUMAN SUBJECT TESTING; HUMAN THERMAL COMFORT; REAL TIME ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL SYSTEM;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0242618256     PISSN: 00012505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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