Overview
- Provides a concise summary and interpretation of the key literature on physical and physiological factors relevant to human thermoregulation
- Sheds new light on various aspects of human temperature control
- Enables the reader to develop a mathematical model of the human thermal system
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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 devoted to blood flow, sweating, shivering, heat transfer within the body, and heat and mass transfer from skin and clothing to the environment. Simple algebraic models based on experimental data from a century of physiological investigation are developed for bodily processes. The book offers an invaluable source of information for physiologists and physical scientists interested in quantitative approaches to the fascinating field of human thermoregulation.
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Book Title: Human Temperature Control
Book Subtitle: A Quantitative Approach
Authors: Eugene H. Wissler
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-57397-6
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-57395-2Published: 08 November 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-58596-2Published: 30 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-57397-6Published: 29 October 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 425
Number of Illustrations: 135 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Physiology, Thermodynamics, Biochemical Engineering, Neurosciences