Human response modelling for thermal comfort assessment: the CORE-CARE case study

In this project, three two-node models, the first developed by Gagge and its improvements, are implemented to predict subjective thermal sensations and have been applied to the CORE-CARE laboratory, a test room located in the Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Padova. In the laboratory 32 tests have been carried out for the winter and summer seasons to measure how the environment influences the human thermal sensation when its conditions change. The evaluation of thermal comfort is conducted with the Standard Effective Temperature (SET), established on a two-node model and introduced by ASHRAE. Finally, an analysis of the obtained results with PMV and SET indexes is carried out.