Comfort Capacity Index-CCI*

Description

This dataset contains the MATLAB source code, baseline workspace data, and processed numerical outputs supporting a computational investigation of thermal comfort and HVAC response in cooling-dominated mosque prayer halls. The files implement psychrometric comfort-zone calculations using the ISO 7730 Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) method, an ASHRAE 55 SET-based elevated-air-speed comparison, and the generalized Comfort Capacity Index (CCI*) framework. The analyses examine the effects of clothing insulation, metabolic rate, air speed, mean radiant temperature, pre-cooling temperature, assessment interval, HVAC response time, outdoor temperature and moisture conditions, demographic clothing composition, and short-duration activity pulses. The CCI* calculations include the C0 zero-removal case, C1 instantaneous conditioned-air response, C2 first-order HVAC response, and C3 first-order response with occupied-period infiltration under temperature-critical and moisture-critical outdoor design conditions. The archive contains 19 MATLAB files, seven CSV result files, one Excel lookup table, and one MATLAB baseline data file. The MATLAB scripts generate the study figures and tables, while the CSV and XLSX files provide the corresponding processed numerical results in directly accessible form. MosqueBaseline.mat contains the precomputed baseline arrays and parameters used by the CCI* lookup-table script. All data are computationally generated. The dataset contains no personal, confidential, survey, or identifiable participant information.

Steps to reproduce

Reproducibility Steps Extract all dataset files into one folder. Open MATLAB and set the extracted folder as the Current Folder. Run the required analysis scripts. To reproduce the complete analysis, run: Module_B_Figure1_Psychro Module_C_Figure2a_Clo Module_C_Figure2b_Met Module_D_Figure3_AirSpeed Module_E_Figure4_Radiant Module_E_Figure5_ISO_ASHRAE_OldEngine Module_H_Figure7_CCI Module_L_Table4_CCI Module_M_CCI_C1_C3_Final Module_M_Figure10_OperationalTimeline Module_N_Targeted_Clothing_Met_Sensitivity The generated figures and result tables will be saved in the same folder. The supplied CSV and XLSX files may be used for comparison.

Institutions

• United Arab Emirates University

  Abu Dhabi, Al Ain

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