Evaluation of a room thermal environment quality. The UCRES comfort profile. Caracterisation de la qualite d'une ambience thermique. Le profil de confort UCRES.

The air velocities and air temperatures distributions within the occupied zone of a room were determined and the wall surface temperatures were measured, in steady-state conditions. For each one of the 5 selected comfort criteria, and at every point of a three-dimensional network, a comfort index, derived from the physical measurements, characterizes the level of discomfort. The data is then synthesized in the form of a comfort profile, taking into account not only the frequency of the 5 types of discomfort, but their intensity as well. This was applied to a study of air diffusion in a full-size test room.