Our human comfort simulation software allows users to place virtual test dummies into environments for computing comfort indices and designing improved clothing, HVAC, or environmental control systems.
ThermoAnalytics is a global pioneer in the effective simulation of human thermal comfort. Our human thermal simulation technology is an advanced plug-in for analyzing human comfort within complex environments: indoor, outdoor, and in transportation systems. This technology allows users to place virtual test dummies into these environments, and compute comfort indices. Full radiant, convective and conductive heat transfer is accounted for, including localized thermoregulatory response such as perspiration, respiration, and blood flow changes.
The virtual dummy is composed of individual body segments that allow the user to define separate layers of clothing and other local effects. The methods employed were developed by Dr. Dusan Fiala, widely considered a world leader in human thermal comfort studies. The environmental models support full weather inputs, solar models, transparent glass with greenhouse effects, and all other significant thermal variables. Multiple human dummies can be placed into realistic systems and the human metabolic loads included as part of the total system energy load, if needed.
Berkeley Comfort Model
The Berkeley Comfort Model provides localized sensation and comfort results for each body segment computed from temperatures predicted by our Human Comfort Module. The Berkeley Comfort Model was developed at the University of California-Berkeley’s Center for the Built Environment. It is an advanced design tool for assessment of localized thermal comfort designs and functions as a module in our software.
The Berkeley Comfort Model enables an engineer to study, for example, how comfortable a passenger’s feet or hands would be in an aircraft or vehicle and determine cost/benefit to a design change in ECS or HVAC.
Total Thermal Solutions
ThermoAnalytics Human Simulation Module provides a full transient analysis of human comfort within complex asymmetrical environments. Because our software predicts a full multimode heat transfer solution, the mechanisms behind human comfort are also studied and new designs can be quickly performed for cost-benefit optimization analysis.
The Human Simulation Module accurately assigns thermal and mass resistances to each layer of clothing and connects it to the skin beneath. While clothing resistances to both heat transfer and diffusion of moisture can be defined by the user, a full library—including over 100 standard articles of clothing—is provided.
Custom Analysis
Our research engineers can deliver a fully positioned and clothed virtual dummy placed into your environment. User routines to tailor the comfort metrics or implement feedback control systems can also be delivered with full engineering reports and analyses. Contact us for an engineering review of your requirements.
Learn More About Human Simulation
Our Human Thermal Simulation Module is the state-of-the-art technology for predicting human thermal comfort, safety, and effectiveness. All thermoregulatory responses are supported and based on activity level.
Our human comfort simulation software allows users to place virtual test dummies into environments for computing comfort indices and designing improved clothing, HVAC, or environmental control systems.
Our research engineers can configure a virtual dummy in your environment that is undergoing a stressful, physically exerting activity level. We can also develop user routines to out a specific effectiveness metric or implement feedback control systems to an engineered environment. The model is delivered with full engineering reports and analysis.
Human infrared signature analysis requires the most advanced technologies for predicting the temperatures of human skin, clothing, and the environment around the human. Our combination of software for human thermal simulation and infrared analysis delivers and unparalleled level of control over both factors.
ManikinPC2 software reads the skin temperature distribution of a thermal manikin, nicknamed "Newton," and computes accurate physiological and metabolic responses over time. The software predicts blood flow rates, perspiration rates, and core body temperature. These are translated into wattages that produce a realistic thermal response, complete with a thermal comfort index.
The ThermoAnalytics Human Comfort Module is a collection of user routines and property databases. It simulates the human body's thermal response to environments with significant thermal loads.
The ThermoAnalytics Human Comfort Module is an advanced plug-in for RadTherm and MuSES software. It analyzes the human thermal comfort of virtual test dummies within complex environments: indoor, outdoor, and in transportation systems. Full radiant, convective and conductive heat transfer is accounted for.
