CONFIGURATION FACTORS BETWEEN A RECTANGULAR SOLID AS A MODEL OF THE HUMAN BODY AND RECTANGULAR PLANES, FOR EVALUATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF THERMAL RADIATION ON THE HUMAN BODY : I. CALCULATION OF CONFIGURATION FACTORS FOR THE RECTANGULAR SOLIDS

Abstract

When the human body is assumed to be a rectangular solid (0.4m×0.2m×1.2m), configuration factors between the rectangular solid and a rectangular plane are obtained by numerical calculation. These results are illustrated in charts, and examples of their application are shown. Comparison of the above-mentioned configuration factors with others for the human body and equivalent simple solid models, or configuration factors between each plane α, β and γ of the rectangular solid R and a rectangular plane δ, will be presented by the authors in following papers.