Human Temperature Control A Quantitative Approach /

• Main Author: Wissler, Eugene H. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Human physiology.; Thermodynamics.; Biochemical engineering.; Neurosciences.; Human Physiology.; Biochemical Engineering.

The principal objective of this book is to provide information needed to define human thermal behavior quantitatively. Human thermal physiology is defined using mathematical methods routinely employed by physicists and engineers, but seldom used by physiologists. Major sections of the book are devot...

Table of Contents:

• Animal Heat and Thermal Regulation
• Conservation of Energy
• Temperature Measurement
• Circulation
• Sweating
• Shivering
• Temperature Distribution in the Body
• Clothing
• Heat and Mass Transfer from the Skin and Clothing. .