A review on predicted mean vote and adaptive thermal comfort models

Building Services Engineering Research and Technology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 23-35

  Yau, Y H ^a   Chew, B T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

actual mean vote; adaptive model; predicted mean vote; Thermal comfort; tropics

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL MEAN VOTE; ADAPTIVE MODELING; ADAPTIVE THERMAL COMFORT; BUILDING SERVICE ENGINEERS; LITERATURE REVIEWS; PREDICTED MEAN VOTE; THERMAL COMFORT LEVEL; VENTILATION AND AIR CONDITIONING;

AIR CONDITIONING; AUDITORIUMS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HOSPITALS; THERMAL COMFORT; TROPICS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 84890828695     PISSN: 01436244     EISSN: 14770849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0143624412465200     Document Type: Review

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