CH-2436 -- Field Assessment of Thermal Characteristics of Man and His Environment by Using a Programmable Pocket Calculator PDF

Energy exchange between human body and its environment has been extensively studied in cooperation with physiologists, physicists and engineers. Several mathematical models of human temperature regulation (1, 2, 5), which simulated physiological regulatory responses as well as heat and mass transfer processes between a man and environment, have been developed to evaluate varieties of environmental conditions ranging from daily habitation to industrial, desert, high altitude or special man-made environments such as hyperbaric helium- oxygen atmospheres. Mathematical models are usually written in FORTRAN or similar computer language and parametric calculation is only being performed by a computer with medium-size memory capacity.

A new type programable calculator will be effectively used to solve those complex calculations evaluating environmental parameters, heat transfer characteristics, rate of energy exchange, physiological states and environmental temperature indices.