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The dynamics of hydroponic crops for simulation studies of the CELSS initial reference configurationsDuring the past several years, the NASA Program in Controlled Ecological Life Support Systems (CELSS) has continued apace with crop research and logistic, technological, and scientific strides. These include the CELSS Test Facility planned for the space station and its prototype Engineering Development Unit, soon to be active at Ames Research Center (as well as the advanced crop growth research chamber at Ames); the large environmental growth chambers and the planned human test bed facility at Johnson Space Center; the NSCORT at Purdue with new candidate crops and diverse research into the CELSS components; the gas exchange data for soy, potatoes, and wheat from Kennedy Space Center (KSC); and the high-precision gas exchange data for wheat from Utah State University (USU). All these developments, taken together, speak to the need for crop modeling as a means to connect the findings of the crop physiologists with the engineers designing the system. A need also exists for crop modeling to analyze and predict the gas exchange data from the various locations to maximize the scientific yield from the experiments. One fruitful approach employs what has been called the 'energy cascade'. Useful as a basis for CELSS crop growth experimental design, the energy cascade as a generic modeling approach for CELSS crops is a featured accomplishment in this report. The energy cascade is a major tool for linking CELSS crop experiments to the system design. The energy cascade presented here can help collaborations between modelers and crop experimenters to develop the most fruitful experiments for pushing the limits of crop productivity. Furthermore, crop models using the energy cascade provide a natural means to compare, feature for feature, the crop growth components between different CELSS experiments, for example, at Utah State University and Kennedy Space Center.
Document ID
19940012806
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Contractor Report (CR)
Authors
Volk, Tyler (New York Univ. New York, NY, United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
August 31, 1993
Subject Category
Life Sciences (General)
Report/Patent Number
NAS 1.26:194654
NASA-CR-194654
Accession Number
94N17279
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NCC2-608
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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