Optimising the ventilation configuration of naturally ventilated livestock buildings for improved indoor environmental homogeneity

Building and Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 983-995

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

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b TEAGASC   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Building geometry; Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Livestock buildings; Optimisation; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL-OCCUPIED ZONES; BUILDING DESIGN PROCESS; BUILDING GEOMETRY; DESIGN VARIABLES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL HETEROGENEITY; GEOMETRICAL FEATURES; GEOMETRICAL STRUCTURE; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; IRELAND; KNOW-HOW; LIVESTOCK BUILDINGS; LOW POROSITY; OPTIMISATION; OPTIMISATIONS; PREDICTIVE MODELS; RESPONSE SURFACE; RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY; VENTILATION EFFICIENCY;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BUILDINGS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FARM BUILDINGS; FLUID DYNAMICS; OPTIMIZATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VENTILATION;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; BUILDING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; GEOMETRY; HOMOGENEITY; INDOOR AIR; LIVESTOCK; OPTIMIZATION; VENTILATION; WIND VELOCITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 71949093327     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2009.10.005     Document Type: Article

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