Abstract
This study was carried out to determine necessary conditions for optimal ventilation of small windowless piglet house (5.2 (W) ${\times}$ 12.3 (L) ${\times}$ 2.3 (H) m) with negative tunnel ventilating system using CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) simulation. The weaning piglet house for this experiment was consisted of 4 rooms (520 (W) ${\times}$ 300 (L) cm), 3 fences (70 (H) cm), 1 air inlet (350 (W) ${\times}$ 2 (H) cm) and 1 exhaust fan (50 (D) cm), and simulated using CFD code, FLUENT. The simulation results for the original weaning piglet house showed ununiform ventilation for each room. Therefore, to uniformly ventilate all rooms, the heights of the air inlet and first fence were modified to 3 cm and 100 cm, respectively. The simulation result f3r the modified weaning piglet house showed uniform ventilation for all rooms and the optimum air inlet velocity of 1.4 m/s.