(2018) Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) research and application in
Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Journal : Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 149, (2018)1-2
Author : Guoqiang Zhang, Christopher Choi, Thomas Bartzanas, In-Bok Lee, Murat Kacira
Abstract
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has become a widely used and highly valued engineering tool among research engineers working in the agricultural, environmental and food industries, with ever more researchers using the technology to help them assess the air quality inside greenhouses, livestock houses and feed storage facilities in order to design systems for controlling the interior climates. Over the past decade, agricultural engineers have also used CFD to help producers optimize the systems that produce renewable energy, and most recently, CFD has been used to analyse the drift patterns of sprayed pesticides and the dispersion of dust and the noxious gases emitted from agricultural production facilities.
This special issue of Computers and Electronics in Agriculture is a collection of research publications regarding the use of CFD in agricultural and Biological Engineering. A portion of the selected papers have been presented at the international CFD Symposium associated with the CIGR/AgEng 2016 Conference in Aarhus, Denmark; however, the authors, who have made a considerable effort to meet the publication standards of the Computers and Electronics in Agriculture journal, describe a broad spectrum of applications, including several that promise to resolve a variety of climate and environmental issues related to both plant and farm-animal production systems, and to postharvest processing as well.
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