Exchange of simulation data between CFD programmes and a multisegmented human thermal comfort model

Proceedings of Conference: Air Conditioning and the Low Carbon Cooling Challenge - Windsor 2008 Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Cropper, Paul C ^a   Yang, Tong ^a   Cook, Malcolm J ^a   Fiala, Dusan ^b   Yousaf, Rehan ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

CFD; Computational thermal manikin; Convection; Heat transfer coefficient; Radiation; Thermal comfort

Indexed keywords

BODY SURFACE; CFD MODELS; COMPUTATIONAL THERMAL MANIKIN; COUPLED SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HEAT EXCHANGE; HUMAN BODIES; HUMAN THERMAL COMFORT; SIMULATION DATA; TEST CASE;

AIR CONDITIONING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FORECASTING; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT RADIATION; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; THERMAL COMFORT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84860704096     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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