Thermal comfort is an important factor which affects both work efficiency and life quality. On the basis of satisfying the normal life of the crew and reliable work of equipment, the thermal comfort is increasingly pursued through the design of the environmental control system of modern craft. Thus, a comprehensive survey of the thermal comfort in the cockpit is carried out. First of all, factors affecting the thermal comfort in aircraft cabin are summarized, including low relative humidity, mean radiant temperature, colored light, human metabolic rate and gender, among which the first three factors are environmental factors and the other two are human factors. Although noise is not a factor affecting thermal comfort, it is an important factor in the overall satisfaction of the aircraft cabin environment. Then the thermal comfort prediction models are introduced, including thermal comfort models suitable for steady state uniform environment and thermal comfort models suitable for transient non-uniform environment. Then the limitations of the typical thermal comfort models applied to aircraft are discussed. Since the concept of thermal adaptation has been gradually accepted in recent years, many field studies on thermal adaptation have been carried out. Therefore, the adaptive thermal comfort models are summarized and analyzed systematically in this paper. At present, mixing ventilation(MV) system is widely used in most commercial aircraft. However, the air quality under the MV system is very poor, and contaminants cannot be effectively eliminated. So a noticeable shift is the design of ventilation system for cabin drawing lessons from the surface buildings. Currently, the most interesting question is that whether the traditional mixing ventilation(MV) system in an aircraft can be replaced by or combined with displacement ventilation(DV) system without decreasing thermal comfort. A reduction of energy consumption is a valuable gain. Additionally, various seat personalized ventilation systems have also been propose
Transmission of airborne bacteria is the main factor causing surgical site infection(SSI),which is harmful to patients′health and even lives.Numerical study is conducted on the effect of the operating table protected by horizontal laminar flow screen.Discrete phase model(DPM)is used.Numerical simulation is carried out to evaluate particle trajectories with the Lagrange approach.As a result,the protecting effect of horizontal laminar flow screen is established,and the protecting parameters of the air velocity supplied by the screen and the protecting distance are optimized.The optimized air velocity supplied by the screen should be at 0.4—0.6 m/s.And the protecting distance should be less than 1.3 m.This work provides references for the study on the depuration of operating table or room.
