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An Energy Budget Model for Estimating the Thermal Comfort of Children by Wenwen Cheng; Robert D. Brown is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.
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Many children growing up in cities are spending less time outdoors to escape the heat. This is contributing to childhood obesity and the prospect of a range of diseases in adulthood. When landscape architects and urban designers use a human thermal comfort model to test their designs for children's comfort, they would have to use a model essentially designed to simulate healthy adults. Yet there are many differences between the body of a child and an adult. The aim of this paper was to modify the thermal comfort model COMFA into a children's energy budget model through the consideration of the heat exchange of a child. The energy budget of a child can be up to 21 W/m higher than adults in hot summertime conditions, and 26 W/m lower in cold conditions. The model was validated through field studies of 65 children (32 boys and 33 girls) aged from 7-12 years old in 9 days from March to June in 2019, in 68 different microclimates ranging from cool to hot. A 5-point thermal comfort scale of energy budget for children was created using multinomial logistic regression, which revealed that children have a different range of thermal acceptability than adults. The frequency distribution of th
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- Author
- Wenwen Cheng; Robert D. Brown
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)