Sweating Effect on Males and Females Body Temperature Variation

Abstract

The human bodies have to stay their normal temperature because the enzymes that causes reaction in the body functions are best at normal temperature. The study deals comparative study of thermoregulation activities of human males and females under hot zone due to sweating. The solution is presented on the basis of variational finite element method for one and two dimensional steady and transient cases. Sweating is one of the effective thermoregulatory processes when the body is in hot condition of heat strain caused by hot ambient conditions or a high metabolic rate. Sweating is considered as a loss of heat from the body by evaporation of water inside body. The sweating rate for male is calculated by the relation; E=8.47×10-5(0.1×Tsk+0.9×Tb)-36.6 [kg/m 2/sec] where, Tsk=T0 (Outer skin surface temperature), Tb=37 (Body core temperature). The rate of sweating in females is less compared to males due to the lower density of sweat gland and hormonal pattern in females. So, coefficient of Tb is considered as 0.7 instead of 0.9 in above relation for females. The analysis sought out that tissue temperature in males is slightly higher as compared to females when atmospheric temperature T∞ is less than body core temperature. But the females tissue temperature is higher when T∞ exceeds above 37°C. The steady state nodal temperature is achieved earlier in case of males in comparison to females. Citation: Gurung DB, Acharya S (2018) Sweating Effect on Males and Females Body Temperature Variation. J Appl Computat Math 7: 401. doi: 10.4172/2168-9679.1000401