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
Language:
English
Type (Professor's evaluation):
Scientific
Contact:
mldinis@fe.up.pt
No. of pages:
5