METHOD, PROGRAM AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING THERMAL COMFORT PERFORMANCE OF STRUCTURE

• Main Authors: OZEKI GIICHI, TAKABAYASHI TORU, TANABE SHINICHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 22.07.2010
• Subjects: ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEASURING TWO OR MORE VARIABLES NOT COVEREDIN A SINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MEASURING; MEASURING NOT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR A SPECIFIC VARIABLE; MEASURING OR TESTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; METEOROLOGY; PHYSICS; TARIFF METERING APPARATUS; TESTING

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To evaluate thermal comfort performance of a structure without using laboratory equipment such as a prototype. SOLUTION: A method of evaluating thermal comfort performance of a structure includes: a step of calculating at least one of the amount of heat loss from a surface of a measuring device, temperature of the measuring device, and/or wetting ratio of the surface of the measuring device based on (i) a physical property value of a first component or the like, and (ii) at least one of an amount of radiation heat transfer at least in the structure, an amount of solar radiation passing through a translucent member to reach a measuring device imitating a shape of human body in the structure, an amount of solar radiation reaching the structure, an amount of convective heat transfer in the structure, humidity in the structure and/or a thermoregulatory function of the measuring device; and a step of calculating a thermal index of the measuring device by using a result of the calculation. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT