Parallel simulation model for heat and moisture transfer of clothed human body

Abstract

The heat and moisture transfer performance in clothed human body affects human life quality (e.g., comfort and health) directly. Accurate modeling and highly efficient simulation of the heat and moisture transfer mechanisms in clothed human body is helpful to enhance the human life quality. In this paper, we first describe a heat and moisture transfer simulation model of clothed human body, which comprises the George Fu’s human thermal physiological model and a 3D heat and moisture transfer model in clothing, and the thermoregulation behaviors as well as the heat transfer mechanisms are taken into consideration. Then according to the physiological and geometrical features of human body, a parallel algorithm for the heat and moisture transfer simulation in clothed human body is proposed. The SPMD framework has been utilized for data parallel. At last, case studies with different environment scenes are presented. The visual simulated results are displayed, and the parallel performance is discussed.