Human body exergy analysis as a function of body fat and muscle percentage: applications to thermal comfort conditions

• Grant number: 15/10034-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2015
• End date: July 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Mechanical Engineering - Thermal Engineering
• Principal Investigator: Carlos Eduardo Keutenedjian Mady
• Grantee: Matheus Martinez Garcia
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Engenharia Mecânica (FEM). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project aims to analyze the human body thermal behavior to obtain thermal confort conditions as a function of fat and muscle percentage. The reason of this choice is that the first is a natural insulation of the body, whereas the second has high metabolism. It will be considered a simplified human thermal model proposed on literature represented by a cylinder with circular cross section with four tissues: skin, fat, muscle and core. Moreover, it is considered the heat transfer between tissues and blood. Finally, this model will be modified for different geometries, in which environmental conditions such as operative temperature and relative humidity will be varied. The results obtained by the model will be compared with the results of the exergy analysis, to study the effect of different tissue constitutions in the thermal confort conditions of the body.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

GARCIA, MATHEUS MARTINEZ; UNE, RAFAEL YOSHIMORI; DE OLIVEIRA JUNIOR, SILVIO; KEUTENEDJIAN MADY, CARLOS EDUARDO. Exergy Analysis and Human Body Thermal Comfort Conditions: Evaluation of Different Body Compositions. Entropy, v. 20, n. 4, APR 2018. (15/22883-7, 15/10034-5)