Thermisches Komfortmodell für inhomogene Umgebungsbedingungen

Evaluation of thermal comfort at inhomogeneous environmental conditions.

Thermal ambient conditions in rooms and cabins and vehicles show very complex and asymmetrical structures. The evaluation of the thermal comfort requires models, which allow a local resolution of the transient environment. Therefore a physiological comfort model based on the Tanabe model is programmed in the object oriented programming language Modelica. The conversion of the physiological results of the Tanabe model is handled by a psychological model similar to the approach of Zhang. The thermal comfort model is calibrated to a large experimental dataset in an automated optimization process. A coupling between the comfort model and a three dimensional flow simulation using the commercial flow solver ANSYS CFX, V. 11.0 gives detailed information of the local ambient conditions.