The human body: a complex thermal system.

Le corps humain : un système thermique complexe.

Date: 1900.01.01

Summary

This report "The Human Thermal System and its Immediate Environment," was presented at the 1995 annual congress of the French Heat Engineers' Society held in Poitiers. Extract from the table of contents: thermal conductivity, a determining parameter in the human thermal system and tissues; components of the human body that play an important role in the thermal system; heat dissipation; the skin: a thermal interface between the human body and its environment; "thermal sensation"; heat regulation; two paradoxal responses; two types of thermoregulation; the human body and its tissues under extreme conditions: hypothermia, hyperthermia; thermal reactions of the human body during activities, following stimuli and in response to the environment; mathematical and physical modelling of the human body.

Details

  • Original title: Le corps humain : un système thermique complexe.
  • Organiser : DITTMAR A., DELHOMME G., PAUCHARD T.
  • Record ID : 1999-0654
  • Languages: French
  • Number of articles: 0
  • Publication: Insa - lyon (institut national des sciences appliquées de lyon) - France/France
  • Source: Source: 29 p. (21 x 29.7); fig.
  • Conference type: Other conference (non-IIR)
  • Notes:

    Actes Congr. annu. SFT, Poitiers

  • Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.