Object-oriented Modeling of Heat and Humidity Budgets
of Biosphere 2 Using Bond Graphs
Keywords
- Bond graph
- Thermodynamic modeling
- Biosphere 2
Abstract
Biosphere 2 is a closed ecosystem located near Tucson, Arizona, designed
for studying the interactions between dif-ferent biological species among
each other and with their materially closed controlled environment, taking
into ac-count 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 under-stand the nature of these interactions, hopefully offering
some insight into the much larger ecosystem of planet Earth.
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