Thermal sensation and comfort models for non-uniform and transient environments, part IV: Adaptive neutral setpoints and smoothed whole-body sensation model

Building and Environment

Volumn 72, Issue , 2014, Pages 300-308

  Zhao, Yin ^a   Zhang, Hui ^b   Arens, Edward A ^b   Zhao, Qianchuan ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Local sensation; Neutral set points; Sensation jump; Set points adaption; Sigmoid function smoothing; Whole body sensation

Indexed keywords

THERMAL COMFORT;

LOCAL SENSATION; SENSATION JUMP; SETPOINTS; SIGMOID FUNCTION; WHOLE-BODY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

INSULATION; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SKIN; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84896977060     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2013.11.004     Document Type: Article

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