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Evolution and performance analysis of adaptive thermal comfort models – A comprehensive literature review

Thermal comfort is fundamental to indoor environmental design and operation as well as indoor thermal environment evaluation. This paper has reviewed the historic evolution of thermal comfort research during the last century using a systematic approach and a particular focus on adaptive thermal comf...

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Main Authors: Runming Yao, Shaoxing Zhang, Chenqiu Du, Marcel Schweiker, Simon Hodder, Bjarne W. Olesen, Jørn Toftum, Francesca Romana d'Ambrosio, Hansjürgen Gebhardt, Shan Zhou, Feng Yuan, Baizhan Li
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/19698472.v1
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author Runming Yao
Shaoxing Zhang
Chenqiu Du
Marcel Schweiker
Simon Hodder
Bjarne W. Olesen
Jørn Toftum
Francesca Romana d'Ambrosio
Hansjürgen Gebhardt
Shan Zhou
Feng Yuan
Baizhan Li
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Shaoxing Zhang
Chenqiu Du
Marcel Schweiker
Simon Hodder
Bjarne W. Olesen
Jørn Toftum
Francesca Romana d'Ambrosio
Hansjürgen Gebhardt
Shan Zhou
Feng Yuan
Baizhan Li
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description Thermal comfort is fundamental to indoor environmental design and operation as well as indoor thermal environment evaluation. This paper has reviewed the historic evolution of thermal comfort research during the last century using a systematic approach and a particular focus on adaptive thermal comfort studies. A large number of published articles as well as standards and guides were collected and screened based on a rigorous search method to ensure the literature database was both focused and complete. A further evaluation of representative prediction models has been conducted by applying the models to a large database and comparing the differences in their performance. Based on the review analysis, three representative thermal environment assessment approaches were classified as the heat balance approach, the adaptive regression-based approach and the adaptive heat balance approach. The strengths and constraints of each approach were analyzed. Comparisons of different models in the adaptive heat balance approach were conducted using the ASHRAE databases I&II. Thermal comfort theory and approaches have been developed which underpin standards and guidelines in building and engineering system design, operation and evaluation though there are pros and cons of different methods. The heat balance approach features the detailed parameters of design criteria of indoor thermal environments. The adaptive regression-based approach played an important role in raising awareness of adaptive capacities and paved the way towards first implementations into standardization. The adaptive heat balance approach combines the heat balance and the adaptive regression approaches and leads towards future improvements in adaptive comfort modelling. It demonstrates very good performance and its inclusive approach offers potential for further breakthroughs in reducing the limitations of the existing methods.
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spelling rr-article-196984722022-04-08T00:00:00Z Evolution and performance analysis of adaptive thermal comfort models – A comprehensive literature review Runming Yao (12504745) Shaoxing Zhang (12495043) Chenqiu Du (12504748) Marcel Schweiker (5901836) Simon Hodder (1250862) Bjarne W. Olesen (7139033) Jørn Toftum (406040) Francesca Romana d'Ambrosio (12504757) Hansjürgen Gebhardt (4015757) Shan Zhou (112166) Feng Yuan (551145) Baizhan Li (450520) Thermal comfort Comfort theory PMV Adaptive thermal comfort Performance criteria Literature survey Thermal comfort is fundamental to indoor environmental design and operation as well as indoor thermal environment evaluation. This paper has reviewed the historic evolution of thermal comfort research during the last century using a systematic approach and a particular focus on adaptive thermal comfort studies. A large number of published articles as well as standards and guides were collected and screened based on a rigorous search method to ensure the literature database was both focused and complete. A further evaluation of representative prediction models has been conducted by applying the models to a large database and comparing the differences in their performance. Based on the review analysis, three representative thermal environment assessment approaches were classified as the heat balance approach, the adaptive regression-based approach and the adaptive heat balance approach. The strengths and constraints of each approach were analyzed. Comparisons of different models in the adaptive heat balance approach were conducted using the ASHRAE databases I&II. Thermal comfort theory and approaches have been developed which underpin standards and guidelines in building and engineering system design, operation and evaluation though there are pros and cons of different methods. The heat balance approach features the detailed parameters of design criteria of indoor thermal environments. The adaptive regression-based approach played an important role in raising awareness of adaptive capacities and paved the way towards first implementations into standardization. The adaptive heat balance approach combines the heat balance and the adaptive regression approaches and leads towards future improvements in adaptive comfort modelling. It demonstrates very good performance and its inclusive approach offers potential for further breakthroughs in reducing the limitations of the existing methods. 2022-04-08T00:00:00Z Text Journal contribution 2134/19698472.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Evolution_and_performance_analysis_of_adaptive_thermal_comfort_models_A_comprehensive_literature_review/19698472 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
spellingShingle Thermal comfort
Comfort theory
PMV
Adaptive thermal comfort
Performance criteria
Literature survey
Runming Yao
Shaoxing Zhang
Chenqiu Du
Marcel Schweiker
Simon Hodder
Bjarne W. Olesen
Jørn Toftum
Francesca Romana d'Ambrosio
Hansjürgen Gebhardt
Shan Zhou
Feng Yuan
Baizhan Li
Evolution and performance analysis of adaptive thermal comfort models – A comprehensive literature review
title Evolution and performance analysis of adaptive thermal comfort models – A comprehensive literature review
title_full Evolution and performance analysis of adaptive thermal comfort models – A comprehensive literature review
title_fullStr Evolution and performance analysis of adaptive thermal comfort models – A comprehensive literature review
title_full_unstemmed Evolution and performance analysis of adaptive thermal comfort models – A comprehensive literature review
title_short Evolution and performance analysis of adaptive thermal comfort models – A comprehensive literature review
title_sort evolution and performance analysis of adaptive thermal comfort models – a comprehensive literature review
topic Thermal comfort
Comfort theory
PMV
Adaptive thermal comfort
Performance criteria
Literature survey
url https://hdl.handle.net/2134/19698472.v1