Duration
12h Th, 24h Pr
Number of credits
Lecturer
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)