2017-2018 / PHYS3036-1

Environment Physics

Duration

12h Th, 24h Pr

Number of credits

 Bachelor in bioengineering3 crédits 
 Master in agricultural bioengineering (120 ECTS)3 crédits 
 Master in bioengineering : chemistry and bio-industries (120 ECTS)3 crédits 
 Master in environmental bioengineering (120 ECTS)3 crédits 
 Master in forests and natural areas engineering (120 ECTS)3 crédits 

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)