Thermal comfort with floor heating

Abstract

This study aimed at investigating the thermal comfort and thermal sensation of subjects in an asymmetric radiant thermal environment; 16 healthy subjects were participated in the experiments. According to the results in nonuniform environments with the cold radiation of outer window and floor heating, the local thermal sensations of body parts were different and were the local thermal comfort and skin temperature. The difference would be reduced as the air temperature increasing. In different conditions, forehead and back skin temperature differed not greatly; the difference of hand skin temperature was large due to hand exposed. Women were more sensitive than men to ambient temperature. In the experiment, women's thermal sensations were colder under the same environment. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014.