Abstract
We have developed a clothed human thermal model to predict physiological response in thermal environment. In this paper, the model was applied to an unsteady thermal environment as the local cold exposure of the right hand. Then the AVA vasomotor response equation of the hands in the model was improved by the experimental data. The model predictions were compared to the experimental data in the skin temperature of the hands and the forearms and the skin blood flow rate of the hands. These results show that the clothed human thermal model was able to predict the physiological response in the local cold exposure, such as the vasoconstriction response and the contralateral response of the hands and the skin temperature of the forearms affected by the venous return from the hands.
