CFD Based Determination of Crop Transpiration in Local Greenhouses in Eastern China

Environmental control programs are beginning to implement water resources control strategies based on transpiration models. Most transpiration studies of greenhouse crops have been undertaken under cold conditions in northern and central Europe. The ventilation process in a local plastic greenhouse was studied using three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD). A simple greenhouse crop transpiration model related to ventilation characteristic of the local greenhouse in eastern China is presented in this paper. The simulated greenhouse crop transpiration has a good agreement with the measurement data.