computational fluid dynamics analysis of greenhouses with artificial heat tube计算流体动力学分析的温室人工加热管.pdfVIP

World Journal of Mechanics, 2012, 2, 181-187 doi:10.4236/wjm.2012.24022 Published Online August 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/wjm) Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis of Greenhouses with Artificial Heat Tube 1 1,2 1 3 Nuno Couto , Abel Rouboa , Eliseu Monteiro , José Viera 1Department of Engineering, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal 2Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA 3Research Department of Agriculture Secretary, Lisbon, Portugal Email: rouboa@ Received April 24, 2012; revised May 30, 2012; accepted June 10, 2012 ABSTRACT With the workmanship decrease in farms, the necessity to rationalize the use of other inputs and the development of technology has rapidly expanded the use of computer simulation in agricultural systems. One of the agricultural systems in which the modeling process of plant growth has been more engaged is the greenhouse production for horticultural crops. In Mediterranean climate, it is during the night that the energy losses are important and can be compensated with an artificial heat input. In this work an experiment was performed in a greenhouse in the north of Portugal. Temperature values in several points and air velocity in the aperture were measured during the night for three different cases: natural convective heating (case A); artificial heating tubes (AHT) (case B); AHT and natural ventilation (case C). A CFD simulation, carried out using FLOTRAN module of ANSYS, was also performed in two-dimensional configuration to obtain the indoor