Proposal of expression of whole-body thermal comfort in non-uniform thermal environment

In the present-paper, the authors propose a new formula for expressing thermal comfort in the steady state in a sitting posture in a non-uniform thermal environment. The formula is applicable under conditions involving various types of clothing and with various air velocities. For the basic experiments, we created non-uniform a subject or a thermal manikin between the surfaces and conducted experiments to determine whole-body thermal comfort, local skin temperature, and local dry heat loss at nearly steady states in sitting postures. Based on the obtained data, we proposed an objective formula.