Impact of personal factors and furniture arrangement on the thermal plume above a sitting occupant

Building and Environment

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 104-116

  Zukowska, Daria ^a   Melikov, Arsen ^a   Popiolek, Zbigniew ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Breathing; Chair design; Clothing; Sitting thermal manikin; Table; Thermal plume

Indexed keywords

AIR SPEED; AIR TEMPERATURE; BLOCKING EFFECT; BREATHING; CLIMATE CHAMBERS; CLOTHING; CONVECTIVE HEAT; FULL-SCALE EXPERIMENT; INTEGRAL CHARACTERISTICS; SENSIBLE HEAT; TABLE; THERMAL MANIKIN; VOLUME FLUX;

DESIGN; EXPERIMENTS; HEAT LOSSES; THERMAL PLUMES;

THERMAL INSULATION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; FLUX CHAMBER; INSULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLUME;

EID: 80054052360     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2011.09.015     Document Type: Article

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