This paper reports a large-scale investigation result on seat occupancy rate in a typical Japan office with 240 workers. The experiment lasted 3 months. The sensing device continuously recorded the seating status for about one week for each working person. From these results , a practical use situation of the personal air-conditioning system in the office could be predicted.

CFD is used to simulate the effects of respiration in displacement ventilated rooms. It was done in a satisfactory manner.An extra simulation was carried out with "density-corrected" exhalation temperature, to see if the results are sensitive to variations of this parameter. This proved not to be the case. The choice of the flow rate is more important for the flow pattern.

The aim of that study is to make a database of the local convective heat transfer coefficients for each part of a human body in sedentary and standing environments through the use of an experimental thermal manikin and an analysis of the radiative heat transfer rate. The results are applicable to both indoor and outdoor environments.

The paper also discusses the influences of wind velocity, sensible heat loss, posture and furniture arrangements on local convective heat transfer coefficients values.

16 segmental and all body heat transfer convective coefficients were determined in tests performed with a thermal mannequin placed in the test chamber of a large wind-tunnel.This paper presents a general table with the numerical coefficients of the equations representing the evolution of the convective coefficient with the flow velocity for all the studied cases (front, back and side flow - at seated and standing postures) . The effect of natural convection is more obvious on the central part of the body. Peripheric parts have stronger losses.

This paper investigates the possibilities to create velocity variations of that type : (change from "low" to "high" velocity and then back "low" velocity again) in a whole room using standard velocity components. The results show large differences at individual points, but the mean value of all 8 positions in the room shows an expected behaviour.

This paper proposes a simple mathematical model for calculation of the convective air flow rate induced by humans. That model has been then compared to a more complex one and to experimental data with satisfactory results.

By means of CFD, the results of that study express a significant influence of Computer Simulated Person geometry on local flow pattern and on personal exposure to contaminants released from the floor surface.

Experiment and CFD simulation show the influence of moving person simulator (of cylinder shape) and thermal manikins on air distribution in ventilated rooms.

This study presents a model to predict the time required by a pollutant to disperse in a room, due to the effects of room occupancy (a moving person enhances the mixing of pollutants).

The experiment shows that the temperature and velocity fields generated above a seated person are comparatively better approached by a thermal manikin rather than a cylindrical dummy.