A numerical modelling approach for biomass field drying

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 458-469

  Bartzanas, T ^a,b   Bochtis, D D ^a   Sorensen C G ^a   Sapounas, A A ^c   Green, O ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^b Institute of Technology and Management of Agricultural Ecosystems   (Greece)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODELS; BIOMASS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DRYING; POROUS MATERIALS;

ACCURATE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CLIMATE HETEROGENEITY; DECISION SUPPORT MODELS; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; HAZARDOUS EFFECTS; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; POROUS MEDIUM APPROACH; STOMATA CONDUCTANCES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 77955175658     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2010.05.010     Document Type: Article

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