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http://dx.doi.org/10.6112/kscfe.2013.18.1.043

NUMERICAL SIMULATION ON CONTROL OF ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES FOR ENVIRONMENT REPRODUCTION SYSTEM USING OPENFOAM  

Jeong, S.M. (Dept. of Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering, Pusan Nat'l Univ.)
Kagemoto, Hiroshi (Dept. of Environment systems, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, Univ. of Tokyo)
Park, J.C. (Dept. of Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering, Pusan Nat'l Univ.)
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Journal of computational fluids engineering / v.18, no.1, 2013 , pp. 43-48 More about this Journal
Abstract
The feasibility of a unique greenhouse, named as Gradient Biome, is now being examined extensively in the University of Tokyo. It is a large chamber (length:200m, width:50m, height:40m) in which the weather, such as temperature and humidity, of the tropical zone through to that of the frigid zone on the earth is reproduced with continuous gradient. In the Gradient Biome, ecosystems (mainly plants) corresponding to each weather are introduced and the possible responses of this ecosystems to the expected global warming are to be observed. Since one of the expected responses is the shift of the ecosystem(s) toward the region of suitable environment, there should be no artificial obstacles, which can prevent the shift, inside the Biome. This requirement is not so easy to be satisfied since the environment tends to be homogeneous. This paper presents the results of the numerical studies conducted to find the ways of how the temperature and humidity in the Gradient Biome could be reproduced. One of the contributed solvers of OpenFOAM, which is an open source physics simulation code, was modified and used for the numerical simulations.
Keywords
CFD; Ecosystems; Environmental Control; Global Warming; Gradient Biome;
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