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Energy Consumption model in Poultry farming

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• Subject: [mg35507] Energy Consumption model in Poultry farming
• From: DLUNDIN at aol.com
• Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 02:08:54 -0400 (EDT)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

All,

I'm using Mathematica to model energy consumption in chicken farms given 
basic data. Then I'm planning to use regression -BUT- before I do I wanted to 
check in with the gurus.

Normally, energy consumption is a function of Heating/Cooling Degree Days and 
I'd like to hear if someone believes this is NOT the case here.

Has anyone developed a purely mathematical model based on radiant, convective 
and conductive heat transfer? I'd rather not take the regression approach if 
I can get a theoretical model instead.

Thanks!
Doug Lundin