Brief description:

Climate change and the retreat of the Arctic ice sheet open new perspectives for the development of the Arctic routes and the expansion of resource extraction, which requires effective protection of people from the cold. Existing protective clothing uses heat-insulating components made of different materials. A necessary thermal insulation is achieved by the great thickness and the correspondingly high weight of the clothing. The project aims to create a fundamentally new generation of protective clothing made of textile fibers based on airgel technology. Airgel has the lowest thermal conductivity of any solid. Airgel could not yet be used in clothing due to its special physical properties. In the project, a new type of clothing with a minimum thickness of insulation is created, which is referred to as an arctic t-shirt (ArTiShirt). In addition, a new type of IR reflection layer based on nickel coatings as the inner layer and a new type of aramid fiber in the outer layer is being developed and integrated into the clothing. This makes arctic temperatures and wind conditions more manageable.

The novelty of the present sub-project consists in the development of a mathematical model for evaluating the thermal insulation of protective clothing of the new type with an airgel thermal insulation material. The mathematical model involves determining the processes of heat and moisture transfer and takes into account the process of freezing the condensed liquid in the surface layers of clothing. The model is designed to accurately predict human heat exchange with the environment at low temperatures. This reduces the number of necessary experiments and thus the cost and duration of the clothing design work.

Project-related publications (selection):

Journal Articles:

• Chorny A., Cherunova I., & Kornev N. (2021). Thermophysical interaction in the shoe-foot system during sport activity. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 176, 121386. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2021.121386

• Cherunova I., Kornev N., Lukyanova E., & Varavka V. (2021). Development and Study of the Structure and Properties of a Composite Textile Material with Encapsulated Heat-Preserving Components for Heat-Protective Clothing. Applied Sciences, 11(11), 5247. DOI: 10.3390/app11115247

• Cherunova I., Kornev N., Jacobi G., Treshchun I., Gross A., Turnow J., Schreier S., & Paschen M. (2014). Application of Heat-Transfer Calculations and Computational Fluid Mechanics to the Design of Protective Clothing. Journal of Engineering Physics and Thermophysics, 87, 855-863. DOI: 10.1007/s10891-014-1081-6

• Turnow J, Kewitz R., Knochenhauer R., & Kornev N. (2016). Coupling of Human Thermoregulation and URANS Computation for Investigation of Local Heat Transfer and Flow Structures in a Generic Car Cabin. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 97(4), 1281–1296. DOI: 10.1007/s10494-016-9780-z

• Cherunova, I., Kornev, N., & Brink, I. (2012). Mathematical model of the ice protection of a human body at high temperatures of surrounding medium. Engineering Research (Forschung im Ingenieurwesen), 76, 97-103. DOI: 10.1007/s10010-012-0159-6

Book contributions:

• Kornev N., & Cherunova I. (2014). Lectures on computational fluid dynamics - Applications to human thermodynamics. Bookboon.

Conference contributions:

• Cherunova I.V., Stenkina M.P., & Kornev N.V. (2021). Verification of thermal models in the design of personal protective equipment against cold. IOP: Materials Science and Engineering, 1029, 012035. DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/1029/1/012035

• Cherunova I.V., Stefanova E.B., & Tashpulatov S.Sh. (2021). Development of an algorithm for forming the structure of composite fiber insulation with heat-accumulating properties in clothing. IOP Conf. Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 1029, 012041. DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/1029/1/012041

• Cherunova I., Stefanova E., & Radyuhina G. (2020). Method of getting the composite fiber material with functional heat-resistant, heat-accumulating components. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 1001, 012014. DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/1001/1/012014

• Cherunova I.V., Kuleshova A.A., & Kokuashvili N.B. (2020). The study of urban factors in the human comfort system. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 962, 032086. DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/962/3/032086

• Cherunova I., Tashpulatov S., & Davydova Yu (2019). Geometric conditions of mathematical modeling of human heat exchange processes with the environment for CAD systems creating heat-shielding clothing. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 680, 012039. DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/680/1/012039

• Cherunova I., Samarbakhsh S., & Kornev N. (2016). CFD simulation of thermo-aerodynamic interaction in a system humancloth-environment under very low temperature and wind conditions. ECCOMAS Congress 2016 - Proc. VII European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, Crete, Greece, 5-10 June 2016, Volume IV, 7703 - 7710. DOI: 10.7712/100016.2366.10854

• Cherunov P.V., Cherunova I.V., Knyazeva S.V., Stenkina M.P., Stefanova E.B., & Kornev N.V. (2015). The Development of the Research Techniques of Structure and Properties of Composite Textile Materials when Interacting with Viscous Fractions of Hydrocarbon Compounds. Proc. VII International Conference on Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures, Structural Membranes 2015, 19-21 October 2015, Barcelona, Spain, CIMNE, 555 - 564.

• Cherunova I., Dhone M., & Kornev N. (2015). Coupled thermo-aerodynamical problems in design of protection cloth. Proc. VI International Conference on Computational Methods for Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering, COUPLED PROBLEMS 2015, Venice, May 2015, 1303-1311.

• Cherunova I., Jacobi G., & Kornev N. (2014). Study of human body aerodynamics for protection cloth design. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Vortex Flows and Vortex Models (ICVFM Nagoya 2014), November 17-20, 2014, Nagoya, Japan.

• Cherunova I., Kornev N., Jacobi G., Treshchun I., Groß A., Turnow J., Schreier S., & Paschen M. (2014). Application of computational fluid mechanics for protection cloth design. Proceedings of the 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XI), 22.-25.07.2014, Barcelona, Spain, 7262-7273.

Contact person:

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Irina Cherunova
Tel.: +49 381 498 9531
E-Mail: irina.cherunovauni-rostockde

ITP GmbH - Gesellschaft für Intelligente Textile Produkte, Weimar

Technoform

10/2021 - 09/2023