Different thermoregulatory responses of people from tropical and temperate zones: A computational study

Estimation of Time-Course Core Temperature and Water Loss in Realistic Adult and Child Models with Urban Micrometeorology Prediction

“…The latter body-part models are considered to approximately represent a compartment model (e.g., cylinders as in [28]), as often used for human temperature computation. We then increased the number of body parts from five [16] to thirteen, to more accurately simulate different limb temperatures [20].…”

“…A detailed explanation of our in-house computational code, developed at the Nagoya Institute of Technology, was given in our previous study [16,20]. In addition to ambient temperature, humidity and wind velocity, the heat owing to solar and infrared radiations, including reflected radiations, was also considered (see Section 3.3).…”

“…In addition to ambient temperature, humidity and wind velocity, the heat owing to solar and infrared radiations, including reflected radiations, was also considered (see Section 3.3). The thermoregulation of the human models were those of an adult grown in a temperate zone [16,20]. The 3-year-old child is also modeled as to distinguish between arterial and venous temperatures for the first time (mentioned in Section 3.2.2).…”

“…The blood temperature elevation was modeled so as to distinguish between arterial and venous temperatures, and thereby simulate for finer sites [28]. The blood temperature was changed according to [20].…”

“…It has been confirmed that the simulation can reproduce the statistical variance in urban street scales, while the reliability of average statistics depends upon the boundary conditions, which are given by meteorological simulations. The human thermophysiological responses have also been modeled considering dependencies such as age and region, and have been validated by comparing with the volunteer study in [16,[18][19][20].…”