Thermal model of human body considering clothes and bedding during sleep

Abstract

In order to develop a thermal model of human body during sleep, this study examined how an existing thermal model of human body for arousal state could be applied to sleeping conditions. The measured results of local skin and core temperatures in sleep experiments were used for a validation purpose. It was shown that Stolwijk model for arousal conditions could explain the experimental results during sleep reasonably well by subdividing human body into nodes to consider the heat and moisture transfer in the clothes and the bedding and adjusting the physical and physiological parameters.