Study Programmes 2016-2017
PHYS3036-1  
Environment Physics
Duration :
12h Th, 24h Pr
Number of credits :
Bachelor in bioengineering3
Master in agricultural bioengineering (120 ECTS)3
Master in bioengineering : chemistry and bio-industries (120 ECTS)3
Master in environmental bioengineering (120 ECTS)3
Master in forests and natural areas engineering (120 ECTS)3
Lecturer :
Bernard Longdoz
Language(s) of instruction :
French language
Organisation and examination :
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents :
Radiation laws / radiative budget Conduction laws / steady state conductive exchanges Convection laws / steady state convective exchanges Psychrometry / steady state latent heat exchanges Energy budget of biosystems
Learning outcomes of the learning unit :
- Identify a system and its boundaries, - Identify and quantify energy fluxes exchanged by a system, - Establish the energy budget of a biosystem end identify the driving variables and parameters of the budget.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
- Thermodynamics course (Bloc 1)
- Electricity course (Bloc 2)
- Fluids mechanics and Photometry (Bloc 2)
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
Lectures : 12h Pratcical works : 24 h
Recommended or required readings :
- Lecture notes - Monteith and Unsworth, Principles of Environmental Physics, Edward Arnold.
Assessment methods and criteria :
Written examination
Work placement(s) :
Organizational remarks :
Contacts :
LONGDOZ Bernard Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Axe Echanges Ecosystèmes Atmosphère 8, Avenue de la Faculté (Bât. 80) 5030 Gembloux
+32 81 622488 Bernard.Longdoz@ulg.ac.be(Marc.Aubinet@ulg.ac.be)