Coupling CFD and human body thermoregulation model for the assessment of personalized ventilation

For that study, three different personalized ventilation (PV) systems are investigated : the desk-edge-based PV, PV using a movable panel (MP) and chair-based PV, they all are able to lower human exposure to ambient room pollutants. To quantify their accommodation to individual thermal preferences a numerical method has been developed. The use of a numerical thermal maninkin (NTM) coupled with a human-body thermal regulation model appears to be a useful tool for the visualization of thermal comfort and ventilation effectiveness.