Research centres around the world have developed different configurations to represent a computer simulated person. The manikins are very different with respect to size, form, heat emission details, turbulence models, etc. The variation may reflect the various possibilities in software and different standards for persons from country to country.
Two benchmark tests are introduced for the test of a CFD manikin, one for mixing ventilation and one for displacement ventilation. The idea behind the benchmark is to test the individual concept under the SAME boundary conditions. The tests of different manikins may improve the design of a CFD manikin and lead to standards.
The benchmark test
- Benchmark Tests for a Computer Simulated Person (Peter V. Nielsen, Shuzo Murakami, Shinsuke Kato, Claus Topp and Jeong-Hoon Yang, 2003)
- Experimental Result of Displacement Ventilation
- Manikin grid 125k
- Manikin grid 500k
- Velocity measurements mixing
Selected literature
—2004
- CFD models of persons evaluated by full-scale wind channel experiments (H. Brohus and P. V. Nielsen, 1996)
- Computational Exposure and Dose Assessment Analysis for Transient Turbulent Flow and Gaseous Pollutant Transport (Hyun, S. and C. Kleinstreuer, 2000)
- Radiation between segments of the seated human body (D. N. Sørensen, 2002)
- Modelling Flow and Heat Transfer around a Seated Human Body (Sørensen, D.N. and L.K. Voigt, 2003)
- INFLUENCE OF GEOMETRY OF THERMAL MANIKINS ON CONCENTRATION DISTRIBUTION AND PERSONAL EXPOSURE (Claus Topp, Peter Hesselholt, Mikkel Roed Trier, Peter V. Nielsen, 2003a)
- INFLUENCE OF GEOMETRY OF THERMAL MANIKINS ON ROOM AIRFLOW (Claus Topp, Peter Hesselholt, Mikkel Roed Trier, Peter V. Nielsen, 2003b)
- Application of Computer-Simulated Persons in Indoor Environmental Modeling (C. Topp, P. V. Nielsen and D. N. Sørensen, 2002)
2001-2006
- Experimental and CFD Benchmark Studies of Indoor Air Flow around Thermal Manikins (abstract, seminar at the ASHRAE winter meeting 2004)
- A Benchmark Study on the Effect of Simplified Representation of Human Figures in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Simulation (Brian Bell, 2006)
- Benchmark Tests of CFD of Airflow around Human Body in a Room with Displacement Ventilation (Shinsuke KATO and Jeong-Hoon YANG, 2006)
- Benchmark Tests for Computer Simulated Person - Mixing Ventilation Cases (S. Murakami, S. Kato and J.H. Yang, 2004)
- Thermal Manikin Simulation Using Experimental Correlations and Clothing Independent Comfort Zone Diagrams (Hakan O. Nilsson, 2006)
- Prediction of personal exposure to contaminant sources in industrial buildings using a sub-zonal model (Zhengen Ren and John Stewart, 2005)
- VALIDATION OF CFD FOR THE FLOW AROUND A COMPUTER SIMULATED PERSON IN A MIXING VENTILATED ROOM (Chris N. Sideroff and Thong Q. Dang, 2005a)
- CFD ANALYSIS OF THE FLOW AROUND A COMPUTER SIMULATED PERSON IN A DISPLACEMENT VENTILATED ROOM (Chris N. Sideroff and Thong Q. Dang, 2005b)
- Challenges in Evaluating Turbulence Models with Benchmark Cases (Chris Sideroff and Thong Dang, 2005c)
- Validation of CFD for the Flow Around a Computer Simulated Person in a Mixing Ventilated Room (Chris Sideroff and Thong Dang, 2005d)
- CFD Analysis of the Flow Around a Computer Simulated Person in a Displacement Ventilated Room (Chris Sideroff and Thong Dang, 2005e)
- Simplified Physical and Simulation Modeling of Building Occupants (Vladimir Vukovic and Jelena Srebric, 2006)
- Description of computer simulated persons (CSP) for simulating local airflow and personal exposure: how simple is too simple? (Xudong Yang Ph.D. and Wei Yan, 2006)
2007-2009
- Khalifa, H.E., S.J. Prescod, J.F. Dannenhoffer, III and B. Elhadidi (2006), "Computation of Occupant Exposure in an Office Cubicle", Proceedings AWMA/EPA Conference: Indoor Air Quality - Problems, Research and Solutions, Durham, NC, July 17-19, 2006.
- COMPUTATION OF OCCUPANT EXPOSURE IN AN OFFICE CUBICLE (H. Ezzat Khalifaa, Samuel J. Prescodb, John F. Dannenhoffer III and Basman Elhadidid, 2006)
- CFD MODELLING OF BENCHMARK TESTS FOR FLOW AROUND A DETAILED COMPUTER SIMULATED PERSON (N. Martinho, A. Lopes and M. Silva, 2008)
- Verification and Validation of CFD for the Personal Micro-Environment (Chris Sideroff and Thong Dang, 2008)
- CFD boundary conditions for contaminant dispersion, heat transfer and airflow simulations around human occupants in indoor environments (J. Srebic, V. Vukovic, G. He and X. Yang, 2008)
2014
- Influence of staff number and internal constellation on surgical site infection in an operating room (S. Sadrizadeh, A. Tammelin, P. Ekolind, S. Holmberg, 2014)
2021- PRESENT
- Thermal manikin shape influence on airflow and heat transfer in the model room with displacement ventilation (E.D. Stepasheva, M.A. Zasimova and N.G. Ivanov, 2021)
- Validation, verification, and quality control of computational fluid dynamics analysis for indoor environments using a computer-simulated person with respiratory tract (S. Yoo and K. Ito, 2022)
ROOMVENT 2004
- CFD Manikin - Benchmark Test - Mixing Ventilation (C. Topp)
- Resumé of the workshop on Virtual Manikins
ROOMVENT 2007
- CFD Simulations of the Personal Micro-Environment (Chris Sideroff and Thong Dang)
- Comparative Study of Airflow Around a CFD Thermal Manikin (John Zhai)
- Thermal plume above a simulated sitting person with different complexity of body geometry (Daria Zukowska, Arsen Melikov and Zbigniew Popiolek)
- Impact of personal factors and furniture arrangement on the thermal plume above a human body (Daria Zukowska, Zbigniew Popiolek and Arsen Melikov)