Recent advances in computational fluid dynamics relevant to the modelling of pesticide flow on leaf surfaces

Pest Management Science

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 2-9

  Richard Glass, C ^a   Walters, Keith F A ^a   Gaskell, Philip H ^b   Lee, Yeaw C ^b   Thompson, Harvey M ^b   Emerson, David R ^c   Gu, Xiao Jun ^c  

^a FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Pesticide; Spreading; Wetting

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DROPLET; FOLIAGE; LEAF; PESTICIDE; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; TOPOGRAPHY; WETTING;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; PLANT LEAF;

MODELS, CHEMICAL; PESTICIDES; PLANT LEAVES;

EID: 72249120901     PISSN: 1526498X     EISSN: 15264998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ps.1824     Document Type: Article

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