Thermal response test analysis of adults and preschoolers under radiant floor heating environment in a hot-summer and cold-winter area [PDF]
The subjective and objective thermal comfort evaluations of adults and preschoolers in radiant floor heating rooms in a hot-summer and cold-winter area are tested in this article, and the thermal response of the two groups of subjects are analysed using ...
Liu Na +4 more
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Evaluation of Four Models for Predicting Thermal Sensation in Chinese Residential Kitchen [PDF]
Thermal environment in residential kitchen in China is transient and non-uniform and with strong radiation asymmetry from gas stove. Due to the complexity of kitchen thermal environment, it is not sure if previous thermal comfort models can accurately ...
Zhou Xiaojie +9 more
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Study on Outdoor Thermal Comfort in the Transitional Season of Hefei [PDF]
In order to study the outdoor thermal comfort during the transition season in Hefei, a university in Hefei adopted a combination of field environmental measurements and questionnaires to study the changes in thermal sensation and thermal comfort of ...
Li Jinwei +4 more
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The thermal comfort of frail people has to be considered carefully, mainly because of the high thermal sensitivity of this population and the negative influences that unsatisfactory thermal conditions have on their health.
Zoubayre El akili +4 more
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The Effect of Length of Service in a Thermal Environment on Thermal Comfort and Mental Stress
An inappropriate thermal environment negatively impacts workers, causing mental stress and safety accidents. Unskilled workers are more vulnerable to industrial accidents and thermal stress compared with skilled workers due to suboptimal and unfamiliar ...
Young-Sub Shin +3 more
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Predicting education building occupants’ thermal sensation through CatBoost-DF algorithm
A novel machine learning method, named CatBoost-DF (CatBoost deep forest), is proposed to solve this existing problem of low accuracy and lack of practicality in thermal sensation prediction.
Jianji Ren +4 more
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Experimental investigation on thermal comfort model between local thermal sensation and overall thermal sensation [PDF]
To study the human local and overall thermal sensations, a series of experiments under various conditions were carried out in a climate control chamber. The adopted analysis method considered the effect of the weight coefficient of local average skin temperature and density of the cold receptors’ distribution in different local body areas.
Fang, Z +4 more
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Enhancing cooling performance via airflow temperature fluctuations [PDF]
In ventilated and air-conditioned indoor environment, air movement substantially impacts thermal sensation and comfort of occupants from the point of view of whole body and local thermal sensation.
Lampret Žiga +2 more
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The response of human thermal sensation and its prediction to temperature step-change (cool-neutral-cool). [PDF]
This paper reports on studies of the effect of temperature step-change (between a cool and a neutral environment) on human thermal sensation and skin temperature.
Xiuyuan Du +7 more
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In order to advance the development of sensors fabricated with monofunctional sensation systems capable of a versatile response to tactile, thermal, gustatory, olfactory, and auditory sensations, mechanoreceptors fabricated as a single platform with an ...
Kunio Shimada
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