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Thermal model of human body fitted with individual characteristics of body temperature regulation

Authors :
Takayuki Matsushita
Hiroaki Kobayashi
Satoru Takada
Source :
Building and Environment. 44(3):463-470
Publication Year :
2009
Publisher :
Elsevier, 2009.

Abstract

To develop a thermal model that can predict the thermal responses of the human body under given environmental conditions, it is necessary for the model to be fitted with the individual characteristics of human body temperature regulation. As the basis for this, in this paper, it is shown that the coefficients that represent the thermoregulatory responses in the two-node model (thermal model of human body) can be identified for individuals. Six coefficients related to the regulation of sweating and skin blood flow in the two-node model are tuned for the individuals involved in the experiments—the core and skin temperatures calculated by the model are fitted with the measured results for the entire thermal transient processes, including exposures to heat and cold.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
03601323
Volume :
44
Issue :
3
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Building and Environment
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....de9cf12754270c118837d175c3e5235c