Assessment of thermal comfort under transitional conditions

作者：Wu Yu Chi^*; Mandavi Ardeshir

来源：Building and Environment, 2014, 76: 30-36.

DOI：10.1016/j.buildenv.2014.03.001

• Thermal comfort
• Thermal sensation
• Spatial transition
• Effective temperature difference

This paper explores thermal comfort assessments under transitional states. Toward this end, multiple groups of participants moved in a laboratory building through a number of spaces with different thermal conditions. The thermal sensation and comfort evaluations of the participants were assessed before transition, immediately after the spatial transition, and after a short period of adaptation. The main objective of the study was to compare participants%26apos; thermal comfort assessments immediately after a spatial transition with those of thermally adapted participants. The results suggest that changes in people%26apos;s thermal sensation vote (TSV) subsequent to a thermally relevant transition from one room to another, are consistent with the temperature difference between the two rooms. Transition-related changes in thermal comfort vote (TCV), however, are more consistent with a proposed new measure of the %26quot;thermal distance%26quot; between the two rooms, namely the effective temperature difference (Delta theta(eff)). This measure compares the distance to comfort temperature before and after the transition.

• 出版日期2014-6