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.


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    Title :

    Modeling of Human Thermal Comfort


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Digital Human Modeling For Design And Engineering Conference And Exhibition ; 2001



    Publication date :

    2001-06-26




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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