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A new simulation system to predict human-environment thermal interactions in naturally ventilated buildings

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posted on 2009-09-03, 12:48 authored by Tong Yang, Paul C. Cropper, Malcolm CookMalcolm Cook, Rehan Yousaf, Dusan Fiala
This paper describes the development of computational thermal manikins (CTMs) to be used in a coupled simulation envrionment to simulate the human thermoregulary response in buildings. 3D graphic design and engineering tools have been used to create CTMs with different postures and clothing insultation levels. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of a nude CTM in a space with displacement ventilation has shown good agreement with experimental data of measured convective and radiative heat transfer coefficients. Investigations of a clothed CTM in a space with natural ventilation has also been conducted and compared with published experimental data.

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School

  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Citation

YANG, T. ... et al, 2007. A new simulation system to predict human-environment thermal interactions in naturally ventilated buildings. IN: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Building Simulation (Building Simulation 2007), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 3rd-6th September, Paper ID-424, pp. 751-756

Publisher

School of Architecture, Tsinghua University

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publication date

2007

Notes

This is a conference paper

Language

  • en