Assessing the ventilation effectiveness of naturally ventilated livestock buildings under wind dominated conditions using computational fluid dynamics

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 78-99

  Norton, Tomas ^a,b   Grant, Jim ^b   Fallon, Richard ^b   Sun, Da Wen ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b TEAGASC   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW RATE; VENTILATION; VORTEX FLOW;

AIRFLOW DISTRIBUTION; COMFORT TEMPERATURES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL HETEROGENEITY; LIVESTOCK BUILDINGS; NATURAL VENTILATION; THERMAL COMFORT INDEX; VENTILATION EFFECTIVENESS;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 63449123788     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2009.02.007     Document Type: Article

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