Drift from field crop sprayers using an integrated approach: Results of a five-year study

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 403-408

  Nuyttens, David ^a   Schampheleire, Mieke De ^b   Baetens, Katrijn ^c   Brusselman, Eva ^a   Dekeyser, Donald ^a   Verboven, Pieter ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERIES RESEARCH ILVO   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Drift mitigation; Drift model; Field crop sprayer; Spray application technology; Spray drift

Indexed keywords

DRIFT MITIGATION; DRIFT MODEL; FIELD CROP SPRAYERS; SPRAY APPLICATION TECHNOLOGY; SPRAY DRIFT;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DROP FORMATION; EXPERIMENTS; INTEGRATED CONTROL; SPRAY GUNS; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CROPS;

ADVECTION; BUFFER ZONE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DROPLET; SPRAY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 79954528433     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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