[esp-r] Modeling of clothing textile... using esp-r?

[Denis Constales]

Dear All,

I've just attended a presentation on the modeling of clothing  
textiles (e.g. for firemen, or for use in foul weather, or for  
certain patients who are unable to maintain proper body temperature,  
etc.) and I was struck by the analogy with building simulation: it's  
a matter of getting the heat, moisture and ventilation aspects  
analyzed, while taking into account active components such as the  
human body's "thermostat" set at 37 degrees Celsius, with the purpose  
of ensuring comfort and maybe optimizing cost or other factors.

Now if one were to model roughly a human body like a robot built out  
of blocks, and if instead of wall layer data one were to use the  
thermal etc. characteristics of given textile layers, quite useful  
results might be obtained using esp-r for the textile industry (of  
course on a time scale of simulated minutes rather than days as it is  
now).

My question: have people already been doing this? Would the  
developers of esp-r be interested in, say, "modding" their code into  
such a textile simulation package? It's not for charity, there are  
European projects riding on these issues (for submission in April, I  
understand). If there is interest, please tell me and I'll make sure  
the people who need this will contact you. Thanks in advance, D.C.
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Denis Constales