Analysis of greenhouse natural ventilation under the environmental conditions of central Mexico

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1753-1761

  Romero Gomez, P ^c   Lopez Cruz, I L ^a   Choi, Christopher Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA CHAPINGO   (Mexico)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Central Mexico; CFD; Greenhouse; Tracer gas; Ventilation; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

AIR EXCHANGE RATES; CENTRAL MEXICO; CFD; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; HIGH WIND SPEEDS; INSECT SCREENS; ME-XICO; NATURAL VENTILATIONS; RAPID GROWTHS; RELEVANT INFORMATIONS; ROOF VENTS; TRACER GAS; TRACER GASSES; VENTILATION RATES; WIND SPEEDS; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENTS;

AERODYNAMICS; AIR; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; FLUID DYNAMICS; GREENHOUSES; HURRICANE EFFECTS; RECONSTRUCTION (STRUCTURAL); STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TUNNELS; WIND TUNNELS;

VENTILATION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GAS EXCHANGE; MICROCLIMATE; VENTILATION; WIND TUNNEL; WIND VELOCITY;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 55249104533     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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