Human perception of local air movement and the acceptable air velocity range for local air movement in the tropics

This article deals with the perception of locally applied airflow from personalized ventilation air terminal devices by tropically acclimatized people. During the experiments, 24 subjects (male and female) were exposed to local airflow from the front and towards the face at six air velocities (from 0.3 up to 0.9 m/s), their perception of air movement is similar to that of other humans. Those velocity ranges are relevant for design of personalized ventilation in practice.