Forty years of Fanger’s model of thermal comfort: comfort for all?
Indoor AirPublished 24 March 2008Open access
Joost van Hoof
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Improved prediction of thermal comfort can be achieved through improving the validity of the PMV model, better specification of the model's input parameters, and accounting for outdoor thermal conditions and special groups.
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The paper treats the assessment of thermal comfort using the PMV model of Fanger, and deals with the strengths and limitations of this model. Readers are made familiar to some opportunities for use in the 21st-century information society.
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