Efficacy of greenhouse natural ventilation: Environmental monitoring and CFD simulations of a study case

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 125, Issue , 2016, Pages 276-286

  Benni, Stefano ^a   Tassinari, Patrizia ^a   Bonora, Filippo ^a   Barbaresi, Alberto ^a   Torreggiani, Daniele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Airflow; CFD simulation; Cooling; Greenhouse

Indexed keywords

COOLING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GREENHOUSES; NUMERICAL MODELS; ROOFS; VENTILATION; VENTS;

AIRFLOW; CFD SIMULATIONS; DISCRETIZATION SCHEME; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDOOR AIR TEMPERATURE; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT CONTROL; MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 84970956287     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2016.05.014     Document Type: Article

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