Research on Occupational Exposure to Radon in Portuguese Thermal Spas

• Tipo: Capítulo ou Parte de Livro
• Data: 2014

Autores

Ana silva (Autor) FEUP; Maria de Lurdes Dinis (Autor) FEUP; António Fiúza (Autor) FEUP

Livro

Título: Occupational Safety and Hygiene II

1º Edição

Páginas: 323-328

ISBN: 978-1-138-00144-2

ISBN Eletrónico: 978-1-315-77352-0

Editora: CRC Press

Indexação

ISI Web of Science

Scopus

Classificação Científica

FOS: Ciências da engenharia e tecnologias

CORDIS: Ciências Tecnológicas ; Ciências Naturais

Outras Informações

DOI: 10.1201/b16490-127

Abstract (EN): For the same environment, thermal perception varies with people and satisfaction with the occupational working place has a great influence on work performance and productivity. There are several methods for solving problems of thermal comfort, including computer simulation of the thermal system comprising the Human Body¿Clothing¿Environment and also CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) techniques used to analyze the HVAC (Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning) systems, particularly in the vicinity of the human body. In the current study, a CFD model was coupled with a thermoregulatory model of the human body to describe the fluid flow, heat and mass transfer between the ventilation air and a human manikin inside a room. The computational model solves the heat, mass and momentum conservation equations in the computation domain using a finite volume discretization method in the ANSYS © environment. The results can later be used to calculate the PMV-PPD index

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 5