EN15251 Adaptive Comfort Maps - Methodology

[RafaelA]

Thanks for all the detailed answers @chris, I really appreciate your explanations (I´m pretty aware some of the questions dig into bits of the code written long ago). Most of my doubts are clear, just a couple of comments below.

@chris

There is no humidity input for the adaptive models in Ladybug Tools and, as far as I understand, there have been no changes in the last 5 years to ASHRAE-55 for EN-15251 to account for it. I know a lot of this is explained by the fact that the data sets used to make the original adaptive models have shown a poorer correlation with all current attempts to account for humidity. But thank you for the link on the paper. I’ll have to give it a read and understand the differences between their method and those used to originally make the model.

Regarding the humidity and EN-15251, I think that is the only paper I´ve seen attempting a correlation. Nothing has changed on the standards as far as I know.

@chris

You will get the best sense of how air speed affects the adaptive model by changing the windSpeed input on the Adaptive comfort chart:

As for the effect of air movement, I understand that the upper comfort thresholds are modified to account for the cooling effect of air movement. Both the CBE tool and the hydra definition have helped me trace it back in the code to:

Is that the formula for one of the curves described in ISO 7730 annex G (below), or something else?
I haven´t found any source on CBE´s website either.