AN INVESTIGATION OF THE AIRFLOW IN MUSHROOM GROWING STRUCTURES FOR MODELLING NEW STRUCTURES

Abstract

This paper is an examination of the airflows in mushroom growing rooms. An experimental investigation of the nature of the flows in Irish tunnels showed them to be of low magnitude at the crop but controllable in principle for single and 3 layers growing shelvets. The provision of air flow solutions for the wide range of new growing systems would be difficult using empirical methods alone and therefore a modelling approach was sought to complement and aid the experimental work. In the application to mushroom growing structures, the principles of the application of CELS3D to flows around obstructions in the flow domain were examined and the difficulties identified.