pythermalcomfort 0.6.0

Package to calculate sevral thermal comfort indeces (e.g. PMV, PPD, SET, adaptive) and convert physical variables.

Package to calculate several thermal comfort indices (e.g. PMV, PPD, SET, adaptive) and convert physical variables.

• Free software: MIT license

Installation

pip install pythermalcomfort

You can also install the in-development version with:

pip install https://github.com/CenterForTheBuiltEnvironment/pythermalcomfort/archive/master.zip

Documentation

https://pythermalcomfort.readthedocs.io/

Examples and Tutorials

Examples

https://github.com/CenterForTheBuiltEnvironment/pythermalcomfort/tree/master/examples

YouTube tutorials

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLQecKYQFvg&list=PL9DCOjERDBeGGVBBlaEWMMDoS_06MZcto

Development

To run the all tests run:

tox

Note, to combine the coverage data from all the tox environments run:

Windows	set PYTEST_ADDOPTS=--cov-append tox
Other	PYTEST_ADDOPTS=--cov-append tox

Changelog

0.6.0

• Renamed function to_calc to t_o

• renamed input parameter ta to tdb

• Added function to calculate mean radiant temperature from black globe temperature

• Added function to calculate solar gain on people

• Added functions to calculate vapour pressure, wet-bulb temperature, dew point temperature, and psychrometric data from dry bulb temperature and RH

0.5.2 (2020-03-11)

• Added function to calculate the running mean outdoor temperature

0.5.1 (2020-03-06)

• There was an error in version 0.4.2 in the calculation of PMV and PPD with elevated air speed, i.e. vr > 0.2 which has been fixed in this version

• Added function to calculate the cooling effect in accordance with ASHRAE

0.4.1 (2020-02-17)

• Removed compatibility with python 2.7 and 3.5

0.4.0 (2020-02-17)

• Created adaptive_EN, v_relative, t_clo, vertical_tmp_gradient, ankle_draft functions and wrote tests.

• Added possibility to decide with measuring system to use SI or IP.

0.3.0 (2020-02-13)

• Created set_tmp, adaptive_ashrae, UTCI functions and wrote tests.

• Added warning to let the user know if inputs entered do not comply with Standards applicability limits.

0.1.0 (2020-02-11)

• Created pmv, pmv_ppd functions and wrote tests.

• Documented code.

0.0.0 (2020-02-11)

• First release on PyPI.