Perceptible airflow fluctuation frequency and human thermal response

Building and Environment

Volumn 54, Issue , 2012, Pages 14-19

  Huang, Li ^a   Ouyang, Qin ^a   Zhu, Yingxin ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Airflow; Fluctuation frequency; Subjective experiment; Thermal comfort

Indexed keywords

AIR MOVEMENT; AIR SUPPLY; AIR VELOCITIES; AIRFLOW; AIRFLOW FLUCTUATIONS; CLIMATE CHAMBERS; CONTROL FACTORS; COOLING EFFECTS; FLUCTUATION FREQUENCY; HUMAN COMFORTS; INCREASED TEMPERATURE; SUBJECTIVE EXPERIMENTS; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; THERMAL ENVIRONMENT; THERMAL RESPONSE; TURBULENCE INTENSITY;

EXPERIMENTS; THERMAL COMFORT;

SPACE HEATING;

AIRFLOW; COOLING; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TURBULENCE;

EID: 84862810900     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2012.02.004     Document Type: Article

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