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Heat and Mass Transfer from the Skin and Clothing

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On a time scale of days, all living organisms transfer heat to the environment at the same rate it is generated metabolically. The rate of heat transfer from skin to the environment depends on the difference between skin and ambient temperatures. Mammals maintain fairly constant acceptable core temperature by regulating skin blood flow, sweating, and shivering to establish acceptable skin temperature, which depends on physical processes by which internal energy is transferred to the environment—conduction, convection, radiation, and evaporation of water. As a practical matter, skin-to-solid conduction is usually not significant in the heat balance, and only three means of internal energy transport are important. An exception to that, of course, is burn damage owing to contact between the skin and a hot surface or flame, with which we are not concerned.

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Wissler, E.H. (2018). Heat and Mass Transfer from the Skin and Clothing. In: Human Temperature Control. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-57397-6_9

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