Human Comfort Library
Energy systems are often optimized with regard to economical rules. On the other hand, humans feel comfortable within certain limits defined by thermal and personal factors. Studies have shown that the change of thermal sensations can be defined by means of characteristic numbers and standardized mathematical methods.
The HumanComfort Library was developed within the european research project EUROSYSLIB. The Library contains basic models to estimate the human comfort of occupants or a group of occupants within an air-conditioned zone. The comfort results are provided in form of mathematical criteria and graphical visualizations.
The HumanComfort Library has a modular approach. The use of standardized interfaces via Modelica.Fluid connectors enables an easy implementation in existing Modelica libraries. Each of the four HumanComfort modules is exchangeable.
The user may combine an existing building simulation model with the Human-Comfort module and additionally use the HumanComfort weather and comfort modules.
The library consists of three packages:
- HumanComfort package for thermal comfort analysis
- Weather package provides a weather model for annual simulation
- Zone package
- mobile applications – aircraft and automotive cabin models
- stationary applications – building simulation models including HVAC (Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning) systems
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