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Heat transfer through wavy clothing layers with varied permeability

2025· article· en· W4410056021 on OpenAlexafffund
Ruoyao Li, Patricia I. Dolez, Adrian Lai, Farzan Gholamreza, Robert Gathercole

Bibliographic record

VenueBuilding and Environment · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMaterials Science
TopicTextile materials and evaluations
Canadian institutionsUniversity of AlbertaUniversity of British Columbia, Okanagan CampusUniversity of British Columbia
FundersMitacs
KeywordsClothingHeat transferMaterials sciencePermeability (electromagnetism)Environmental scienceMechanicsComposite materialPhysicsChemistryGeographyMembrane

Abstract

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The heat exchange between the human body and the environment is significantly influenced by the microclimate created between the clothing and the skin, which is essential for maintaining thermophysiological comfort. In the present study, a three-dimensional (3D) numerical model was developed to investigate heat transfer between the skin and the environment through wavy microclimate structures with different clothing permeability. The air penetration through the clothing was considered, and the clothing was treated as a porous and air-permeable material in the model. Viscous shear and inertial effects were included in the governing equations to accurately simulate airflow in the fabric domain. The numerical model was first validated against experimental data obtained from a sweating guarded hotplate and showed good agreement. The validated model was then used to study the effect of airflow direction on the heat transfer performance. The results showed that airflow parallel to the fabric folds enhances heat transfer compared to airflow perpendicular to the fabric folds. Additionally, the effects of the wavy fold aspect ratio (amplitude to wavelength, W/H=2.4, 4.8 and infinite) and fabric air permeability ( 10 − 14 m 2 to 10 − 6 m 2 ) were analyzed. The findings revealed that heat dissipation is more effective in wavy shapes than flat configurations. Moreover, heat flux decreased with increasing permeability until a critical minimum was reached, after which heat flux started to increase sharply. This research provides detailed insights into heat transfer in clothing microclimates, which is valuable for advancing clothing design.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.002

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.248
Teacher spread0.231 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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