Summer overheating of a passive sports hall building

Determination of Thermal Comfort in Indoor Sport Facilities Located in Moderate Environments: An Overview

“…Kisilewics and Dudzinska, 2015 [14] Measurements of the six basic parameters for the assessment of Fanger's indices. Calculation of the operative temperature.…”

“…Most of the studies were based on the calculation of Fanger's indices, predicted mean vote (PMV) and predicted percentage of dissatisfied (PPD), derived from field measurements [14,16,17,19,22] or from simulations obtained through computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models [86,88].…”

“…In particular, the ePMV can be calculated as ePMV = e PMV (17) In the research of Revel and Arnesano [18,20], the expectancy factor was considered equal to 0.7. Furthermore, for the evaluation of the PMV in the swimming pool, the condition of the swimmer just coming out from water was considered and the evaporative term described by [14] has been added for the calculation of the PMV.…”

“…In moderate environments, defined as spaces in which it is possible to reach the condition of thermal well-being, only few studies have been carried out. These studies were focused on the monitoring the thermal conditions according to thermal comfort indices [14,15], on the interventions to improve thermal comfort [16,17], on the comparison between objective and subjective measurements [18,19], on the assessment of thermal comfort to balance energy use [16,20] and on the association between thermal comfort and physiological responses during exercise [21,22]. However, there was no standardization in the measurement methodologies or in the models that were used to predict thermal sensation in sport facilities.…”

“…In particular, the adaptation of the model of Stolwijk to the wet swimmer (during interval I) includes the addition of an evaporative term [92] E(I) = (p skin (I) − p a ) 2.2 h c (I) (10 v a ) 1/2 f pcl (I) S(I) (14) where E(I) is the evaporative heat loss of segment I of a wet body (W), p skin is the saturated water vapor pressure at the skin of segment I (Pa), p a is the water vapor partial pressure of the air (Pa), h c is the convective heat transfer coefficient (W/m 2 K), v a is the air velocity (m/s), f pcl (I) is the Nishi's permeation efficiency factor of segment I and S(I) (m 2 ) is the surface area of segment I. For the calculation, usually the segment I is assumed equal to the nude part of the swimmer's body.…”