Underground railway environment in the UK Part 1: Review of thermal comfort

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 611-631

  Ampofo, F ^a   Maidment, G ^a   Missenden, J ^a  

^a LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

PMV; PPDASHRAE; Railway; Relative humidity; Temperature; Thermal comfort; Underground; Velocity

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; COOLING; RAILROADS; THERMAL LOAD; UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

PREDICTED MEAN VOTE (PMV); THERMAL COMFORT;

THERMAL EFFECTS;

EID: 0346896750     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2003.10.017     Document Type: Article

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