Thermal comfort models for indoor spaces and vehicles—Current capabilities and future perspectives

Cristiana Croitoru, Ilinca Nastase, Florin Bode, Amina Meslem and Angel Dogeanu

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2015, vol. 44, issue C, 304-318

Abstract: Throughout this paper, we reviewed the most popular thermal comfort models and methods of assessing thermal comfort in buildings and vehicular spaces. Most of them are limited to specific steady state, thermally homogenous environments and only a few of them address human responses to both non-uniform and transient conditions with a detailed thermo-regulation model. Some of them are defined by a series of international standards which stayed unchanged for more than a decade.

Keywords: Thermal comfort models; Fanger’s models; Adaptive thermal comfort models; Physiological thermal comfort models; Thermal comfort assessment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2014.10.105

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