Quantitative Measurement of Thermal Comfort Under Transient and Non-Uniform Conditions in Vehicles

2003-01-2232

06/16/2003

Event
Digital Human Modeling for Design and Engineering Conference and Exhibition
Authors Abstract
Content
A unique measurement device, called StickMan, and a customized vehicle climate control system, were developed to measure thermal comfort under transient and non-uniform conditions inside vehicle. The systems were fully calibrated and then used to characterize the vehicle thermal environments (air temperature, radiant temperature, air velocity, relative humidity) at 20 locations. Coupled with a seventeen segment version of the human thermal model TRANMOD (Jones and Ogawa, 1992), one can predict both whole body and local thermal sensation accurately based on the StickMan measurements. Therefore, using a device such as StickMan may reduce the design cycle and costs by eliminating the need of large number of human subjects to evaluate thermal comfort satisfaction in vehicle prototypes.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2003-01-2232
Pages
9
Citation
Hosni, M., Guan, Y., Jones, B., and Gielda, T., "Quantitative Measurement of Thermal Comfort Under Transient and Non-Uniform Conditions in Vehicles," SAE Technical Paper 2003-01-2232, 2003, https://doi.org/10.4271/2003-01-2232.
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Published
Jun 16, 2003
Product Code
2003-01-2232
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English