Steve Perry wrote:
What you're describing is thermal conduction.
Every article on wind chill will tell you that it's what the temperature feels like due to the wind. The rate of thermal conduction is what causes "wind chill", but the wind chill itself, derived from the rate of thermal conduction, is how it feels when you're out in the wind at a given, cool temperature. In fact, if you look at wikipedia, the mention this:
"Many formulas exist for wind chill because, unlike temperature, wind chill has no universally agreed upon standard definition or measurement. All the formulas attempt to qualitatively predict the effect of wind on the temperature humans perceive. Weather services in different countries use standards unique to their country or region; for example, the U.S. and Canadian weather services use a model accepted by the National Weather Service. That model has evolved over time."
Of particular interest:
"the temperature humans perceive"
So, how it feels is certainly part of the formula for wind chill, and not even fully agreed upon by every country, unlike the rate of thermal conduction itself.
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Again, it is a convection calculation. It has nothing about conduction or feel in the equation. A conduction calculation requires the thermal conductivity of the material conducting; e.g. the skin. Don’t be fooled by authors who are better at writing than Engineering.
FYI I have a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering and aced Thermo (along with all my other College courses).