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

[J.L. Niu]

Dear Denis,

You may refer to the following paper, which may provide some technical 
details on combined simulation of human body thermal regulation and the 
thermal environment.

Gao, N. P., Niu JL, and Zhang H. Coupling CFD and human body 
thermoregulation model for the assessment of personalized 
ventilation",  International Journal of HVAC&R Research, 12 (3): 497-518 
JUL 2006

The work is done by iterative manual combination of CFD model and human 
body model. We would be interested to work with any party to build up an 
automated numerical model into esp-r.

Jianlei Niu

At 06:36 PM 1/17/2007, Denis Constales wrote:
>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.
>--
>Denis Constales
>
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