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Title: A numerical simulation study for the human passive thermal system
Authors: Yıldırım, Eda Didem
Özerdem, Barış
Keywords: Heat transfer
Human body
Passive thermal model
Transient heat transfer
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd.
Source: Yıldırım, E. D., and Özerdem, B. (2008). A numerical simulation study for the human passive thermal system. Energy and Buildings, 40(7), 1117-1123. doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2007.10.015
Abstract: The objective of this study is to create a dynamic model representing a transient three-dimensional passive thermal model of the human body. The model is a multi-segmental, multi-layered representation of the human body with spatial subdivisions which simulates the heat transfer phenomena within the body and at its surface. In order to represent the mechanisms of heat transfer within the body, energy balance equations including conduction with adjacent tissue, heat storage, metabolic heat generation, and convective heat transfer due to the blood flow in the capillaries are taken into consideration for each tissue. The present model of the passive system accounts for the geometric and anatomic characteristics of the human body and considers the thermo-physical and the basal physiological properties of tissue materials. It is assumed that the body is exposed to combination of the convection, evaporation and radiation which are taken into account as boundary conditions when solving the passive thermal system equation. The model is capable of predicting human body temperature in any given environmental conditions. Finite difference solution scheme is used to find out the temperature distribution of human body. The results are compared with the experimental data of previous studies present in the literature. Consequently, the numerical results of present model show good agreement with the experimental data.
URI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2007.10.015
http://hdl.handle.net/11147/2391
ISSN: 0378-7788
0378-7788
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