ABSTRACT

The numerical modeling and computer simulation of the thermophysiological reactions of the human body in a particular indoor environment with specific parameters and features is an up-to-date and complex task, which is interdisciplinary in its nature. The specific environmental conditions, as was mentioned in Chapter 1, significantly affect the human thermophysiological comfort, but at the same time the human body is an active source of heat, which is involved in the exchange of heat and moisture with the indoor environment (Pichurov et al. 2014). The modeling of this interaction by using a mathematical model to predict the response of the thermoregulation system of the human body in any activity and in any environment is a task that can be solved by thermophysiological models (detailed in Chapter 16). The integration of such a thermophysiological model in the simulation of room air flow improves the description of the generation and transfer of heat in and

body temperature and skin temperature, as well as the heat losses (Pichurov and Stankov 2013).