Human thermal comfort model and manikin

Rom McGuffin; Rick Burke; Charley Huizenga; Zhang Hui; Andreas Vlahinos; George Fu

doi:10.4271/2002-01-1955

Human thermal comfort model and manikin

Rom McGuffin, Rick Burke, Charley Huizenga, Zhang Hui, Andreas Vlahinos, George Fu

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Current vehicle climate control systems are dramatically overpowered because they are designed to condition the cabin air mass in a specified period of time. A more effective and energy efficient objective is to directly achieve thermal comfort of the passengers. NREL is developing numerical and experimental tools to predict human thermal comfort in non-uniform transient thermal environments. These tools include a finite element model of human thermal physiology, a psychological model that predicts both local and global thermal comfort, and a high spatial resolution sweating thermal manikin for testing in actual vehicles.

Original language	English
Journal	SAE Technical Papers
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4271/2002-01-1955
State	Published - 2002
Event	2002 Future Car Congress - Arlington, VA, United States Duration: Jun 3 2002 → Jun 5 2002

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Automotive Engineering
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Pollution
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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