Effect of various parameters for temperature distribution in human body: An analytic approach

Abstract

This paper is the extension of the work originally presented in 2nd International Conference on Man and Machine Interfacing (MAMI 2017) and the paper of Yue et al. The present study aims at observing the effect of various parameters on temperature distribution profiles at various environmental temperature, tissue thermal conductivities, metabolic rates, blood perfusion rates, and heat transfer coefficients. The analytic solution of Pennes’ bioheat equation in the steady-state case is obtained by using the Modified Bessel’s equation incorporating the effect of sweating and non-sweating state of the body. From the study, it was observed that the variation of atmospheric temperature and heat transfer coefficients have a significant effect for the temperature distribution in the body towards the skin surface.