Cross-scale modelling of transpiration from stomata via the leaf boundary layer

Annals of Botany

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 711-723

  Defraeye, Thijs ^a,b,c   Derome, Dominique ^b   Verboven, Pieter ^a   Carmeliet, Jan ^b,c   Nicolai, Bart ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d Flanders Centre for Postharvest Technology   (Belgium)

Author keywords

boundary layer; boundary layer conductance; computational fluid dynamics; convective mass transfer coefficient; droplet; functional structural modelling; leaf; microclimate; microscale; multiscale model; Stomata; transpiration; turbulence

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; MASS TRANSFER; MICROCLIMATE; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRANSPIRATION; TURBULENCE;

WATER;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LIGHT; MICROCLIMATE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STOMA; RADIATION RESPONSE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MICROCLIMATE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT STOMATA; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; PLANTS; WATER;

EID: 84910684554     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mct313     Document Type: Article

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