Analysis and Optimization of the Fan-Pad Evaporative Cooling System for Greenhouse Based on CFD

A CFD model was presented to simulate the distribution of air velocity and temperature in a greenhouse adopting the fan-pad cooling system in summer. The Boussinesq hypothesis was applied for the simulation of gravitation; the k-ε turbulent model and discrete ordinates model were selected to predict...

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Main Authors: Jiaoliao Chen, Yanwen Cai, Fang Xu, Haigen Hu, Qinglin Ai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2014-01-01
Series:Advances in Mechanical Engineering
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/712740