Analysis of the efficiency of greenhouse ventilation using computational fluid dynamics

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 85, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 217-228

  Mistriotis, A ^a   Bot, G P A ^a   Picuno, P ^b   Scarascia Mugnozza, G ^c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Greenhouse; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; GREENHOUSES; SIMULATION; VENTILATION;

EID: 0030952077     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1923(96)02400-8     Document Type: Article

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