Effect of sweat accumulation in clothing on transient thermophysiological response of human body to the environment

The experiments involving clothed subjects are conducted to reproduce the situation in which people enter an air-conditioned room just after sweating, and analyzed using a combined model, which consists of two-node model for thermophysiological response of human body and simultaneous heat and moisture transfer model for thermal and hygric behavior of clothing. The experimental and calculated results of the skin temperatures, the clothing temperatures and the weight are compared. By tuning the parameters related to the moisture transfer in and around the clothing, a quantitative grasp of the characteristics of the moisture behavior during the process is tried in the analysis.