The optimal control strategies are found based on requirements of users, who set a minimum comfort level to be fulfilled.
To improve the applicability of CFD to building design, a thermal comfort index called the "minimum comfort temperature" was used in this study.
Gone are the days of Hemingway, big-game hunting and the minimum comfort safari.
Previously, Wisconsin law stated that employee pay "shall be not less than a living wage," defined as "adequate to permit any employee to maintain herself or himself in minimum comfort, decency, physical and moral well-being".
The complaint cited state laws that say any wage paid by a Wisconsin employer must be a living wage that allows the employee to maintain their welfare, and that such a wage must "be adequate to permit any employee to maintain herself or himself in minimum comfort, decency, physical and moral well-being".
He does give a table, with a long supporting footnote that failed to make clear to me how he could have possibly decided that 90,000,000 Americans are now living on less than $4,500 a year; I suspect some confusion between a "maintenance" and a "minimum-comfort" budget.
Meet minimum thermal comfort standards for temperature and humidity and keep thermal conditions consistent throughout the day.
"I wanted to have a decent hotel with at least a minimum of comfort but not with too much space," the elder Mr. Widemann said.
The results of this research define recommendations for the minimum spatial comfort of social housing units: 1) the minimum floor area per member; and 2) the minimum floor area and width of the individual rooms.
The results of this study are presented in the form of hot and cold hours in a year, maximum and minimum indoor comfort temperatures, and frequency of effective ventilation per person as air quality performance indicator in each room.
