A review of human thermal comfort in the built environment

RF Rupp, NG Vásquez, R Lamberts - Energy and buildings, 2015 - Elsevier
The aim of this paper is to review the literature on human thermal comfort in the built
environment. First an overview about the subject area is presented. This is followed by a …

Expressions for the evaporation and condensation coefficients in the Hertz-Knudsen relation

AH Persad, CA Ward - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Although the Hertz-Knudsen (HK) relation is often used to correlate evaporation data, the
relation contains two empirical parameters (the evaporation and condensation coefficients) …

State-of-the-art, challenges and new perspectives of thermal comfort demand law for on-demand intelligent control of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems

X Zhao, Y Yin, Z He, Z Deng - Energy and Buildings, 2023 - Elsevier
The indoor thermal environment in buildings, industry, and other fields greatly affects human
thermal comfort, productivity, energy consumption, and even health. The heating, ventilation …

Molecular simulation of steady-state evaporation and condensation: Validity of the Schrage relationships

Z Liang, T Biben, P Keblinski - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2017 - Elsevier
The accuracy, or even the validity, of the Schrage relationships expressing the rate of
evaporation and condensation in terms of local interfacial thermodynamics properties and …

Review on modeling heat transfer and thermoregulatory responses in human body

M Fu, W Weng, W Chen, N Luo - Journal of thermal biology, 2016 - Elsevier
Several mathematical models of human thermoregulation have been developed,
contributing to a deep understanding of thermal responses in different thermal conditions …

Molecular simulation of steady-state evaporation and condensation of water in air

E Bird, JG Plascencia, P Keblinski, Z Liang - International Journal of Heat …, 2022 - Elsevier
It was shown in recent experiments and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations that Schrage
equation predicts evaporation and condensation rates of water in the absence of a non …

Investigating the validity of Schrage relationships for water using molecular dynamics simulations

A Chandra, P Keblinski - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Recently, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were utilized to show that Schrage theory
predicts evaporation/condensation mass fluxes with good accuracy in the case of …

Estimating clothing thermal insulation using an infrared camera

JH Lee, YK Kim, KS Kim, S Kim - Sensors, 2016 - mdpi.com
In this paper, a novel algorithm for estimating clothing insulation is proposed to assess
thermal comfort, based on the non-contact and real-time measurements of the face and …

Typical winter clothing characteristics and thermal insulation of ensembles for older people in China

Y Tang, H Yu, Z Wang, M Luo, K Zhang, Y Jiao… - Building and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Clothing plays an essential role in maintaining heat balance and thermal comfort for older
people but varies with climate conditions and costume culture. The recommended clothing …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular simulation of steady-state evaporation and condensation in the presence of a non-condensable gas

Z Liang, P Keblinski - The Journal of chemical physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Using molecular dynamics simulations, we study evaporation and condensation of fluid Ar in
the presence of a non-condensable Ne gas in a nanochannel. The evaporation and …