Greenhouses

The September 2017 issue of the National Geographic magazine contained an article wondering why the Netherlands, this small, urbanized, and densely-populated country in Western Europe, is the second world exporter of food. The answer is found in the innovativeness of Dutch agric…

A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model was used to study natural ventilation in arid region greenhouses. Airflow, temperature and moisture distributions for naturally and fan-ventilated greenhouses, and greenhouses cooled by evaporative systems were simulated numerically and…