calctAdapt15251 {comf}

Adaptive Comfort or Neutral Temperatures

Description

calctadapt are three functions to calculate adaptive comfort or neutral temperatures based on a given outdoor temperature value.

Usage

calctAdapt15251(trm = 20)

calctAdaptASHRAE(tmmo)

calctnAuliciems(ta, tmmo)

calctnHumphreysNV(tmmo)

calctnHumphreysAC(tmmo)

Arguments

trm

numerical value presenting the running mean outdoor temperature in [degree C].

ta

numerical value presenting the indoor air temperature in [degree C].

tmmo

numerical value presenting the mean monthly outdoor temperature in [degree C].

Value

returns the adaptive comfort or neutral temperature with respect to the given outdoor temperature value

Note

The difference between calctnHumphreysNV and calctnHumphreysAC is that the former was found for natural ventilated buildings (NV), while the latter was found for climate-controlled buildings (AC).

Author(s)

Code implemented in to R by Marcel Schweiker. Further contribution by Sophia Mueller and Shoaib Sarwar.

References

calctAdapt15251 is based on DIN EN 15251 Indoor environmental input parameters for design and assessment of energy performance of buildings addressing indoor air quality, thermal environment, lighting and acoustics; German version EN 15251:2012 2012.

calcAdaptASHRAE is based on Brager & de Dear (2001) Climate, comfort, & natural ventilation: a new adaptive comfort standard for ASHRAE standard 55.

calctnAuliciems is based on Auliciems (1981) Psycho-physiological criteria for global thermal zones of building design.

calctnHumphreysNV and calctnHumphreysAC are based on Humphreys (1978) Outdoor temperatures and comfort indoors. Batiment International, Building Research and Practice, Taylor and Francis.

See Also

see also calcComfInd

Examples

## define variable
trm <- 21.2
## calculate adaptive comfort temperature
calctAdapt15251(trm)