Human thermal comfort: An irreversibility-based approach emulating empirical clothed-body correlations and the conceptual energy balance equation

Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 450-458

  Rabi, José A ^a   Silva, Robson L ^b   Oliveira, Celso E L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DA GRANDE DOURADOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Exergetic analysis; Thermal comfort; Thermodynamics; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT AIR; EMPIRICAL CORRELATIONS; ENERGY BALANCE EQUATIONS; ENTROPY GENERATION; EXERGETIC ANALYSIS; EXERGY LOSS; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; HUMAN THERMAL COMFORT; IRREVERSIBILITY RATE; MEAN RADIANT TEMPERATURE; SURROUNDING TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMIC MODEL; THERMOREGULATION; THERMOREGULATORY;

ENERGY BALANCE; ENTROPY; EXERGY; THERMODYNAMICS;

THERMAL COMFORT;

EID: 84874696314     PISSN: 16785878     EISSN: 18063691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1678-58782012000400005     Document Type: Article

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