The new manikin FIALA-FE provides all the thermo-physiological effects of the human body
model published in the frequently cited PhD thesis of 1998 [5].
From a mathematical point of view, the human organism can be separated into two interacting
systems of thermoregulation: the controlling active system and the controlled passive system.
The active system is simulated by means of cybernetic models predicting regulatory
responses, i.e., shivering, vasomotion, and sweating, as discussed in [24]. The passive system
is modelled by simulating the physical human body and the heat transfer phenomena
occurring in it and at its surface.
The physical body consists
of body elements that are
approximated as cylinders
or sphere (head), they are
separated into sectors and
subdivided into material
layers: skin, fat, muscle,
bone. [5,19,24].
THESEUS-FE uses two
different models for the
new manikin FIALA-FE
for pre- and postprocessing
(figure 1).