Human Thermal Comfort Model and Manikin
2002-01-1955
06/03/2002
- Event
- Content
- 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.
- Pages
- 19
- Citation
- McGuffin, R., Burke, R., Huizenga, C., Hui, Z. et al., "Human Thermal Comfort Model and Manikin," SAE Technical Paper 2002-01-1955, 2002, https://doi.org/10.4271/2002-01-1955.