Bond Graph Modeling of Heat and Humidity Budgets
of Biosphere 2
Keywords
- Biosphere
- Bond graph modeling
- Thermodynamics
Abstract
Biosphere 2 is a closed ecosystem located near Tucson, Arizona, designed for
studying the interactions between different biological species among each other
and with their materially closed controlled environment, taking into account the
limited resources that such an environment provides. Energy considerations play
a central role in how these interactions play out. To this end, bond graph models
were designed that enable the researcher to better understand the nature of these
interactions, hopefully offering some insight into the much larger ecosystem of
planet Earth.
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