Opening Size Effects on Airflow Pattern and Airflow Rate of a Naturally Ventilated Dairy Building—A CFD Study

• Published in: Applied sciences Vol. 10; no. 17; p. 6054
• Main Authors: Saha, Chayan Kumer, Yi, Qianying, Janke, David, Hempel, Sabrina, Amon, Barbara, Amon, Thomas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.09.2020
• Subjects: Airflow; Buildings; CFD; cow barns; Environmental conditions; Experiments; Farm buildings; Foreign exchange rates; Heat; Indoor air quality; Livestock; natural ventilation; Scale models; Simulation; Velocity; Ventilation; ventilation openings; Germany

Airflow inside naturally ventilated dairy (NVD) buildings is highly variable and difficult to understand due to the lack of precious measuring techniques with the existing methods. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) was applied to investigate the effect of different seasonal opening combinations of...