Assessment of the optical properties of two cover materials of greenhouse on the heat transfer

In the present work, we interested to describe numerically the effects of the optical proprities of the polyethylene and polycarbonate used as a cover of a greenhouse in a semi-arid region Ghardaïa from Algeria case study. In... [ view full abstract ]

In the present work, we interested to describe numerically the effects of the optical proprities of the polyethylene and polycarbonate used as a cover of a greenhouse in a semi-arid region Ghardaïa from Algeria case study. In order to evaluate the importance of this proprities like as the absorption coefficient and reflective index the ansys fluent computational fluid dynamic code [CFD] was used for 3D and 2D simulation for the radiation heat transfer and transport phenomena inside a tunnel greenhouse.