Abstract
This work evaluates the passengers thermal comfort level inside a vehicles compartment. The numerical study, made in winter conditions, consider a bus indoor environment equipped with internal curtains, internal seats, lateral panels, ceiling, floor and occupied by 52 passengers. The numerical model considers the passengers and vehicle grid generation, passengers body and clothing thermal response and passengers thermal comfort level. The grid generation is used to evaluate the view factors and Mean Radiant Temperature that the passengers are subjected. In this calculus the passengers and the vehicles surfaces shading devices are considered. The thermal response numerical models consider the energy and mass balance integral equations. The thermal comfort evaluation considers the heat produced inside the body and the heat exchange between the body and the environment. The human body numerical model considers also the thermoregulatory system to control the temperature. The numerical model is used to evaluate the thermal comfort level that seated passengers are subjected in a bus equipped with asymmetrical warm curtains. Three Cases studies were developed: the first one considers the temperature curtains equal to the indoor bus surfaces, while the other two consider higher temperatures values. All Cases are thermally comfortable according to the standards.
Highlights
The people spend part of the time inside vehicles, as bus, trains, and others vehicles
In the present numerical study is analysed, in detail, the thermal comfort of the passengers seated inside a bus, on both sides with windows, without and with internal curtains on the left window subjected to solar radiation
In this study the application of passengers’ thermoregulation integral model used in the evaluation of thermal comfort in vehicles compartment equipped with internal curtains was made
Summary
The people spend part of the time inside vehicles, as bus, trains, and others vehicles. The radiative heat exchanges numerical model between the vehicle and the passengers, based on Mean Radiant Temperature method, is developed and applied in the works of Conceição et al [6,21]. The numerical model that simulates the vehicles thermal behavior calculates the solar radiation incident in the internal and external surfaces, and the radiative heat exchange between internal, in each space, and external surfaces, between vehicle and surrounding bodies. In the present numerical study is analysed, in detail, the thermal comfort of the passengers seated inside a bus, on both sides with windows, without and with internal curtains on the left window subjected to solar radiation. The view factors and the radiative heat exchanges by radiation between the different human body sections and the surroundings surfaces, namely, the seats, lateral panels, ceiling, floor, curtains, and others, are considered
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