Open AccessExperimental validation of CFD model with the air velocity and temperature in the plant factory
Author(s) -
Shenghan Zhou,
Xin Zhang,
Zhongqun He,
Huan Liu,
Ke Liu,
Yufei Chen,
Fei Peng,
Qichang Yang,
Youliang Zheng,
Wen-Hsiang Lu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/560/1/012089
Subject(s) - computational fluid dynamics , factory (object oriented programming) , air velocity , air temperature , environmental science , mechanics , meteorology , physics , computer science , programming language
A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model for the closed plant factory has been developed in this study, the experimental validation of CFD model with the air velocity value was compared with the measured air temperature value. The results showed that the mean relative error of validation with the air velocity was 15%, and comparable with experimentally observed air temperature profile inside the plant factory with RMSE of 3% which shows the utility of CFD to study plant factory microclimatic parameters.