The past, present and future of CFD for agro-environmental applications

Experimental performance of evaporative cooling pad systems in greenhouses in humid subtropical climates

“…The method of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) [7,8] and TRNSYS [9] are applied to study the energy http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2014. 10.061 0306-2619/Ó 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.…”

Numerical simulations of the airflows in a wine-aging room: A lattice Boltzmann-Immersed Boundary study

“…Prediction methods, based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations, have already been successfully adopted for ventilation in greenhouses (Jiménez-Hornero et al, 2006;Bournet and Boulard, 2010;Boulard et al, 2010;Molina-Aiz et al, 2010), livestock (Bjerg et al, 2002), food-industry (Xia and Sun, 2002;Norton, 2013). Possible applications of CFD simulations in agricultural and environmental contexts have been underlined in Lee et al (2013), while the usage of CFD for bioenergy and biomass has been highlighted in Bartzanas et al (2013) and Wu (2013). Moreover, a review of numerical predictions of heat and mass exchanges at leaf surface has been carried out in Defraeye et al (2013).…”

Aerodynamically Efficient Rotor Design for Hovering Agricultural Unmanned Helicopter

“…CFD has matured as a general predictive tool with sensible reliability in the industry (Moin and Kim 1997, Xia and Sun 2002, Lee et al 2013, di Perta et al 2016. Since the first application of CFD to the rotary wing (Caradonna and Isom 1972), recent solutions of Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations offer substantial developments in the computation of complex aero-dynamics around the rotorcraft (Ahmad and Duque 1996, Pomin and Wagner 2002, Costes et al 2012, Kranzinger et al 2016) and the similar applications (Adeeb et al 2016).…”