Modelling of ammonia emissions from naturally ventilated livestock buildings. Part 3: CFD modelling

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 259-275

  Bjerg, Bjarne ^a   Cascone, Giovanni ^b   Lee, In Bok ^c   Bartzanas, Thomas ^d   Norton, Tomas ^e   Hong, Se Woon ^c   Seo, Il Hwan ^c   Banhazi, Thomas ^f   Liberati, Paolo ^g   Marucci, Alvaro ^h   Zhang, Guoqiang ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d INSTITUTE OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE AND REHABILITATION   (Greece)

^e HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

ⁱ AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL POWER; CONTAMINANT TRANSFER; CURRENT CAPABILITY; LARGE SCALE SIMULATIONS; LIVESTOCK BUILDINGS; MESHING TECHNIQUES; MODELLING TECHNIQUES; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES;

AMMONIA; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAIRIES; TURBULENCE MODELS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURE;

EID: 84885030757     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2013.06.012     Document Type: Review

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