Numerical Simulation of the Effects of Blood Perfusion, Water Diffusion, and Vaporization on the Skin Temperature and Burn Injuries

Radiative heating of superficial human tissues with the use of water-filtered infrared-A radiation: A computational modeling

“…The uncertainty in thermal conductivity of epidermis was neglected because of a very small thickness of this layer. Note that the ranges of possible values of thermal conductivity used in papers [37,44] for other tissues were slightly wider: from 0.37 to 0.52 W m À1 K À1 for dermis and from 0.16 to 0.21 W m À1 K À1 for the subcutaneous fat.…”

“…Note that diffusion of water towards the body surface may be important in the case of a very intense external heating [37]. This effect is neglected in the present paper because of relatively mild conditions of thermal treatment.…”

“…This effect is neglected in the present paper because of relatively mild conditions of thermal treatment. Another thermal effect analyzed in [37] is the evaporation of water from the body surface. This effect may be considerable especially in the beginning of the treatment, but at this stage we preferred to include it in the uncertainty of the convective heat transfer coefficient.…”

Prediction methods of skin burn for performance evaluation of thermal protective clothing

“…Recently, the newly developed RadManTM [76] supplied a heat flux between 5 and 21 kW/m 2 . In these conditions, water diffusion, vaporization [77], temperature-dependent blood perfusion rate [42,78], and skin water content [79][80][81] will influence the thermal conductivity and volumetric heat capacity of the skin to some extent. Therefore, new burn prediction methods should be developed for lower-level and longer-duration exposure [82].…”

Med livet som innsats

“…Fu og medarbeidere var enig i at blodgjennomstrømningen i dermis hadde liten effekt på brannskader, og de konkluderte med at forskjellig varmeledningsevne og varmekapasitet i epidermis og dermis hadde liten betydning (15).…”