Modeling human thermal comfort

Thermal comfort standards determine indoor conditions in buildings as well as the energyconsumption for heating and cooling purposes. Existing thermal comfort standards are basedon steadystatethermal conditions, and according to recent research these standards can notdescribe thermal comfort accurately enough with transient boundary conditions. In this paper,a method based on Hui (2003) is presented to calculate local and overall human body thermalsensations in time dependent and nonuniform.In addition, local and overall thermal comfortpredictions can be performed based on these thermal sensation values.