CFD of HVAC System to Simulate the Vertical Farm Facility Using OpenFOAM

The Indoor plant industrial facilities are one of the elective approaches to satisfy the needs of food creation for the expanded metropolitan tenants. It empowers cultivators to develop food crops reliably and locally with a superior grade. In confined solitary container, a controlled agriculture environment, ventilation and solitary rack system is utilized to control the changing climate and to maintain the atmosphere consistency. Lettuce is a highly produced crop in vertical farm lines and an ill-advised plan could cause the tip burn of lettuces which ordinarily happens at internal and recently occurring leaves with the less transpiration rate because of the presence of a boundary layer. A three-dimensional computational (CFD) model is created by reproducing the developing climate in a solitary rack framework. And further developed airflow framework was planned and proposed to help give a dynamic and uniform limit layer that could help stall tip consumption events in lettuce production. An inlet at the roof is installed for the supply of air which was intended to give vertical wind currents down through the canopy of the crop by decreasing the temperature and relative humidity. Different cases were studied using CFD and controlled treatment was employed.