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International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research

Table 1 Physical properties and boundary conditions

From: Numerical investigation of heat transfer in a garment convective cooling system

 

Medium

Boundary types

Physical properties

Thermal conductivity (W/K m)

Pressure constant thermal capacity (J/K kg)

Inlet

Air

Uniform inlet flow

pair = 101325 pa

Tair = 283 K

vair = 0.5 m/s

ρair = 1.165 kg/m3

0.026

1000

Outlet

Air

Back pressure outlet

pout = 101325 pa

Body surface

Human skin

Isothermal wall

Tskin = 310 K

ρskin = 860 kg/m3

0.3

5021

Garment

Cotton

Convection wall

ρcottom = 81 kg/m3

0.059

1150