Thermal insulation of animal coats and human clothing
- 1 July 1978
- journal article
- review article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Physics in Medicine & Biology
- Vol. 23 (4) , 565-591
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/23/4/001
Abstract
This review describes how the structure of the coats of homeothermic animals and the clothing of man influence their insulation and control the physical processes of energy exchange between the body and its surroundings. Examples in which thermal considerations are important to wellbeing or survival are chosen from ecology, climatic physiology and the study of human comfort.This publication has 61 references indexed in Scilit:
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