Fundamental research on quantitative evaluation method of thermal comfort under unsteady thermal environment

2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24760162
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Thermal engineering
• Research Institution: Shizuoka University
• Principal Investigator: KAKIMOTO Yasushi 静岡大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 准教授 (50336004)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2014-03-31
• Keywords: 生体熱工学 / 非定常温熱環境 / 温冷感 / 熱的快適性

Research Abstract

For the purpose of the establishment of the quantitative evaluation method for the thermal comfort under an unsteady thermal environment, experimental study was carried out to clarify the correlation between human physiologic parameters and thermal sensation.
New evaluation method which can trace an unsteady behavior of thermal sensation with high accuracy was suggested. It was clarified that the unsteady change of the environmental temperature causes the increase or decrease of skin surface temperature and blood flow rate, and those changes of physiologic parameters are related to the transient behavior of the thermal sensation.