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Simulation of Heat and Water Transport on Different Tree Canopies: A Finite Element Approach

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  • Carlos E. Villarreal-Olavarrieta

    (Departmento de Oceanografía Física, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Ensenada 22860, Mexico)

  • Néstor García-Chan

    (Departamento de Física, CU de Cs Exactas e Ingeniería, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara 44430, Mexico)

  • Miguel E. Vázquez-Méndez

    (Departamento de Matemática Aplicada, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, EPSE, 27002 Lugo, Spain)

Abstract

Heat and water transport modeling is a widely explored topic in micro-meteorology, agriculture, and forestry. One of the most popular models is the Simultaneous Heat and Water (SHAW) model, which includes partial differential equations (PDEs) for air-soil temperature and humidity, but with a priori discretized PDE for the foliage temperature in each canopy layer; it is solved using the finite difference method and the canopy shape is defined as a simple rule of proportionality of total quantities such as the total leaf area index. This work proposes a novel canopy shape characterization based on Weibull distribution, providing a continuous vertical shape function capable of fitting any tree species. This allows formulating a fully continuous SHAW-derived model, which is numerically solved by a finite element approach of P 1 Lagrange type. For this novel approach, several numerical experiments were carried out to understand how the shape of well distinguishable canopies influences heat and water transport.

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  • Carlos E. Villarreal-Olavarrieta & Néstor García-Chan & Miguel E. Vázquez-Méndez, 2021. "Simulation of Heat and Water Transport on Different Tree Canopies: A Finite Element Approach," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 9(19), pages 1-20, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jmathe:v:9:y:2021:i:19:p:2431-:d:647751
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