Thermal sensation and comfort models for non-uniform and transient environments, part II: Local comfort of individual body parts

Building and Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 389-398

  Zhang, Hui ^a   Arens, Edward ^a   Huizenga, Charlie ^a   Han, Taeyoung ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Local thermal comfort; Local thermal sensation; Logistic function; Predictive model; Whole body thermal sensation

Indexed keywords

LOCAL THERMAL COMFORT; LOCAL THERMAL SENSATION; LOGISTIC FUNCTION; PREDICTIVE MODEL; WHOLE-BODY THERMAL SENSATION;

AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; THERMAL COMFORT;

AUTOMOBILE BODIES;

BODY CONDITION; BODY TEMPERATURE; MODELING; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SKIN;

EID: 70350137955     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2009.06.015     Document Type: Article

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