Personal cooling garments and phase change materials: A review

E Rahimi, A Babapoor, G Moradi, S Kalantary… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
In the modern world, climate change and global warming are serious problems. The thermal
management of the human body under these conditions, especially during physical activity …

Thermal manikins controlled by human thermoregulation models for energy efficiency and thermal comfort research–A review

A Psikuta, J Allegrini, B Koelblen, A Bogdan… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
As technology has advanced, the increasing pressure on energy usage reduction and
expectations of consumers regarding comfort have made the requirements posed on …

A review of CFD analysis methods for personalized ventilation (PV) in indoor built environments

J Liu, S Zhu, MK Kim, J Srebric - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is an effective analysis method of personalized
ventilation (PV) in indoor built environments. As an increasingly important supplement to …

Effects of clothing size and air ventilation rate on cooling performance of air ventilation clothing in a warm condition

J Yang, F Wang, G Song, R Li, U Raj - International Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Effects of clothing size and air ventilation rate on the cooling performance of three air
ventilation jackets (size small, medium and large) were investigated. Two ventilation rates …

Quantification of personal thermal comfort with localized airflow system based on sensitivity analysis and classification tree model

C Du, B Li, H Liu, Y Ji, R Yao, W Yu - Energy and Buildings, 2019 - Elsevier
Although local air movement acts as a critical factor to enhance human thermal comfort and
energy efficiency, the various factors influencing such movement have led to inconsistent …

A novel convection and radiation combined terminal device: Its impact on occupant thermal comfort and cognitive performance in winter indoor environments

W Su, B Yang, B Zhou, F Wang, A Li - Energy and Buildings, 2021 - Elsevier
Personal comfort systems usually use a single heat transfer mode to improve local thermal
comfort by only stimulating one local body part. A novel hybrid convection and radiation …

Understanding human-building interactions under multimodal discomfort

G Ozcelik, B Becerik-Gerber, R Chugh - Building and Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
The uncertainty in occupants' interactions with building systems and occupant-related
factors influence the accuracy of building energy consumption estimates. Individual …

A coupled CFD-thermoregulation model for air ventilation clothing

B Choudhary - Energy and Buildings, 2022 - Elsevier
The present work explains a coupled CFD-thermoregulation model developed for the air
ventilation clothing to predicts its performance. The coupled model predicts heat transfer …

Assessment of airflow and heat transfer around a thermal manikin in a premise served by DOAS and ceiling fans

T Hasama, K Mihara, C Sekhar, KWD Cheong… - Building and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ceiling fan improves thermal comfort and reduces air-conditioning energy consumption in
super low energy buildings operated at warmer room air temperature with increased air …

Condition of circular economy in Poland

Z Kledyński, A Bogdan, W Jackiewicz-Rek… - Archives of Civil …, 2020 - yadda.icm.edu.pl
1 Prof., DSc., PhD., Eng., Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Building Services
Hydro and Environmental Engineering, Nowowiejska 20, 00-653 Warsaw, Poland, e-mail …