An Investigation of the Aerodynamic and Ventilation Characteristics of Poultry Transport Vehicles: Part 3, Internal Flow Field Calculations

✍ Scribed by S. Dalley; C.J. Baker; X. Yang; P. Kettlewell; R. Hoxey

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 502 KB
• Volume: 65
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-8634
• DOI: 10.1006/jaer.1996.0084

✦ Synopsis

The method is used to predict temperature and humidity in the crates during a typical journey and the results are compared with measurements made at full scale during a journey . Optimization of factors in the calculation is performed and a sensitivity analysis is used to assess the impact of various model parameters . The method is shown to produce realistic estimates of the internal conditions in all the environments that the full scale vehicle encounters . It is not unduly sensitive to the parameters most dif ficult to determine by full-scale measurements . Having assessed its performance the computer model is now ready to be used as a tool to predict vehicle internal environments for dif ferent journeys and to investigate the ef fects of vehicle modifications .