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ENVI-met Biomet is a post-processing tool to calculate human thermal comfort indices based on your simulation data. | ENVI-met Biomet is a post-processing tool to calculate human thermal comfort indices based on your simulation data. | ||
It directly interacts with the ENVI-met output and lets you interactivly set the persons parameter, the Thermal Comfort Index and the range of calculation. | It directly interacts with the ENVI-met output and lets you interactivly set the persons parameter, the Thermal Comfort Index and the range of calculation. | ||
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===== Thermal Comfort Indices provided by BioMet 1.5 ===== | ===== Thermal Comfort Indices provided by BioMet 1.5 ===== | ||
- | In the recent version 1.5, Biomet supports **PMV/PPD** (Predicted mean vote), **PET* **(Physiologal Equivalent Temperature), | + | In the recent version 1.5, Biomet supports **PMV/PPD** (Predicted mean vote), **PET* **(Physiologal Equivalent Temperature), |
The indices vary in their level of complexity and therefore calculation time. While UTCI is regression based and quick, PMV requires the iterative solution of one energy balance equation and PET requires the solution of two of them and is hence much more calculation time expensive. Compared to former version of ENVI-met, the calculation of Thermal Comfort Indices as a post-processing step allows to modify e.g. personal settings without running ENVI-met again. | The indices vary in their level of complexity and therefore calculation time. While UTCI is regression based and quick, PMV requires the iterative solution of one energy balance equation and PET requires the solution of two of them and is hence much more calculation time expensive. Compared to former version of ENVI-met, the calculation of Thermal Comfort Indices as a post-processing step allows to modify e.g. personal settings without running ENVI-met again. | ||
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+ | ===== Which Comfort Index shall I use? ===== | ||
+ | This is the big and holy question. The fact, that BioMet already supports 4 of them gives a clue, that there is no generally accepted answer. | ||
+ | We suggest reading the paper by Fischereit and Schlünzen (2018) [[https:// | ||
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+ | **The suggest to use PET as a thermal comfort indicator.** | ||
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===== Upgrade to BioMet Professional ===== | ===== Upgrade to BioMet Professional ===== | ||
- | To calculate other indices apart from PMV, you need to **upgrade to the Professional license of ENVI-met BioMet.** | + | To calculate other indices apart from PMV, you need to have ** Professional license of ENVI-met BioMet.** |
- | Please visit **[[apps: | + | From August 2019, the Professional |
- | Please note, that BioMet Pro is not included in the discounted SCIENCE and STUDENT licenses of ENVI-met. | ||