Improving the representation of thermal boundary conditions of livestock during CFD modelling of the indoor environment

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 17-36

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

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b TEAGASC   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Airflow; Animal house; CFD; Computational fluid dynamics; Livestock building; Optimisation; Simulation; Temperature; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; ANIMAL HOUSE; LIVESTOCK BUILDINGS; OPTIMISATIONS; SIMULATION;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; HEAT FLUX; HEATING; TEMPERATURE; VENTILATION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

AIRFLOW; ANIMAL; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; INDOOR AIR; OPTIMIZATION; THERMOREGULATION; VENTILATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 81255192948     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2010.04.002     Document Type: Article

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