5. Conclusions

Numerical tools applied at predictive models of heat and mass transfer are helpful to better manage water-climate-soil inputs to plants in greenhouses. Computational fluid dynamics models are used to describe the greenhouse microclimate and the behavior of the plant-environment interaction in greenhouses. CFD is a powerful tool, to get the analysis of interactions between components of biosystem. Cover material, soil, and crop with other components must be included in the model. The crop can be considered as a porous medium and measured transpiration and sensible heat transfers. CFD models and auxiliary programming tools have been widely used to measure the interactions between the mass and energy transfer processes within the greenhouse and other biosystems, with excellent results.

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