Modeling of Human Thermal Comfort
2001-01-1739
01/14/2001
- 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
- 27
- Citation
- McGuffin, R., "Modeling of Human Thermal Comfort," SAE Technical Paper 2001-01-1739, 2001, https://doi.org/10.4271/2001-01-1739.