Human Thermal Comfort

ISBN-13: 9780367261931 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 132 str.

Ken Parsons

Opis

Thermal comfort is a desirable state familiar to all people. The strive for thermal comfort conditions in indoor and outdoor environments throughout the world is of great human, ecological, and economical importance. This book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of theory comfort from principles and theory to application.

Spis treści

1. Human Thermal Comfort. 2. Professor Fanger's Comfort Equation. 3. The Predicted Mean Vote (PMV and Predicted Percentage of Dissatisfied (PPD). 4. Professor Pharo Gagge's New Effective Temperature (ET*). 5. Local Thermal Discomfort. 6. Adaprive Thermal Comfort. 7. Thermal Comfort in Planes, Trains, Automobiles, Outdoors, in Space and under Pressure. 8. Thermal Comfort and Gender, Age, Geographical Location and for People with Disabilities. 9. Thermal Comfort and Human Performance. 10. International Standards and a Computer Model of Thermal Comfort. 11. The Thermal Comfort Survey.