You can control the following aspects of the human models in a
simulation:
- Clothing insulation level, which is a measure of the thermal insulation provided by clothing.
It is expressed in units of clo. Common clothing insulation values are available
from many sources, including .
- Metabolic rate, which specifies the heat generation per unit area on the surface of the body.
Some common values are 0.7 met for a sleeping human, 1.0 met for a seated human,
and 2.0 met for a walking human. Metabolic values for a variety of human
activities are available in the ASHRAE Standard 55-2010 handbook.
- The surfaces that represent the human boundary condition. When you select surfaces, they do
not need to be contiguous or to form a closed volume.
- Similar to walls, surfaces representing the human boundary condition can be subject to
surface-to-surface radiation and solar radiation, and you can specify their
radiation parameters.