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    New Member
    Posts: 2
    Registered: ‎05-10-2012

    help with modeling heat gain from people

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    09-06-2012 08:12 AM

    The overall effort we are working onit trying to model a large auditorium/convention hall filled with people.  Instead of including 1000 individual people, I was hoping to instead include discrete blocks that would represent a smaller number, say 10 blocks of 100 people.  The blocks would take up the equivelant floor space of 100 people, and would give off equivelent heat.

     

    I am worried about the correlation between heat generation and surface temperature of people.  Would a model with a constant heat generation of 250 Btu/h (for example) be more accurate, or would setting the surface temperature of a person at 95 deg F be more accurate?

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    wildej
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    Registered: ‎08-25-2011

    Re: help with modeling heat gain from people

    09-10-2012 12:22 AM in reply to: brian.shassian

    Hi,

     

    We typically apply a heat generation to a human model rather than using fixed temperatures. This way we can get an idea of the effects of differing cooling strategies rather than them remaining at a fixed temperature.

     

    Kind regards,

    Jon



    Jon Wilde
    Product Support Specialist
    Autodesk, Inc.


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