Modeling heat transfer in the vegetation-soil continuum

This thesis contributes to the scientific underpinning of the battle against fruit frost. Fruit frost is the freezing damage to blossoms when in the growing season the night temperature drops below 0±C. This results in damaged or undeveloped fruits, and a yield loss for the fruit farmer. Several techniques against fruit frost have been developed...

Simulating the transition between two media in the Shive wave machine

In this research, a Shive wave machine is used to study (a) the velocity of waves<br/>throughout different media and (b) the transition of waves between two different<br/>media. The Shive wave machine used in this research consists of 32 parallel<br/>aluminum bars attached perpendicularly to three parallel central wires. When<br/>a perturbation...