calcVTG: PPD with Vertical Air Temperature Gradient

View source: R/calcVTG.R

calcVTGR Documentation

PPD with Vertical Air Temperature Gradient

Description

Function to calculate vertical air temperature gradient using the predicted percentage of dissatisfied.

Usage

calcVTG(ta, tr, vel, rh, clo, met, v_tmp_grad)

Arguments

ta

a numeric value presenting air temperature in [degree C]

tr

a numeric value presenting mean radiant temperature in [degree C]

vel

a numeric value presenting air velocity in [m/s]

rh

a numeric value presenting relative humidity [%]

clo

a numeric value presenting clothing insulation level in [clo]

met

a numeric value presenting metabolic rate in [met]

v_tmp_grad

vertical temperature gradient between the feet and the head [degree C/m]

Details

Calculates the percentage of thermally dissatisfied persons with a vertical temperature gradient between feet and head. Applicable only for velocity(vel) < 0.2 m/s

Value

Predicted Percentage of Dissatisfied with vertical temperature gradient in [%]

Acceptability in [boolean]

Author(s)

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

References

Original code in Python by Tartarini & Schiavon (2020) <doi:10.1016/j.softx.2020.100578>

Examples

calcVTG(25,25,0.1,50,0.5,1.2,7) 
# returns Vertical Air Temperature Gradient:12.4, Acceptability:FALSE

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