ROY , Jean Claude

For the 1990s computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has allowed significant progresses for modeling the greenhouse distributed climate, including at crop level. It chiefly relies on the dynamic action of the crop on air flow and the subsequent heat and mass exchanges. Thus, the CFD approach combined different scales of modeling: the greenhouse and...

This study is principally based on predicting the consequences on the microclimate of changing greenhouse design. Several variations on the greenhouse design have been described and examined, i.e. the number of spans and gutter height. Climate investigations were based on numerical simulations using the CFD model and included the dynamic effect...