Nesli Akdeniz

Position title: Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist in Controlled Livestock Production

Email: nesli@wisc.edu

Website: Controlled Environments in Livestock Production

Phone: (608) 262-0613

Address:
232B Agricultural Engineering Building
460 Henry Mall
Madison, WI 53706

Program Affiliations

Biological Systems Engineering

UW-Madison Extension

Education

Ph.D. 2008- Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University

Fields of Interest

Measuring air emissions using drone-based systems
CFD simulations of livestock buildings and greenhouses
Ventilation design for dairy buildings with automated milking systems
Airborne disease control and diseased animal tissue containment strategies

Teaching

BSE 367 Renewable Energy Systems

Publications

Google Scholar
ORCID

Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications:

* corresponding author, underlined advisee

Ly, N. N. Akdeniz*. 2026. Practical guidelines to improve the sustainability of ventilation fan use in agricultural operations. Sustainability, under review.
Choi, C. S. Karapitiya, D. Panditharatne, N. Akdeniz, et al. 2026. Frontier: LLM-driven agentic digital twins for dairy housing: From data-rich facilities to intelligent controlled environmental systems. Journal of the ASABE, under review.
Ly, N. N. Akdeniz*, C. Choi. 2026. Positive pressure tube ventilation for indoor-housed calves: A validated CFD and on-farm evaluation across heat and cold stress. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, under review.
Yi, Y. N. Akdeniz*. 2026. Computational fluid dynamics simulations of photovoltaic-powered ventilation systems in deep winter greenhouses. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, under review.
Yi, Y. N. Akdeniz*. 2026. A comprehensive review of computational modeling, data analytics, and intelligent approaches to greenhouse ventilation systems. Smart Agricultural Technology, under review.
Froelich, E., N. Akdeniz*. 2025. Enhancing anaerobic digestion of agricultural by-products: Insights and future direction in microaeration. Bioengineering, 12(10): 1117. https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering12101117
Yang, D., N. Akdeniz*, KG, Karthikeyan. 2025. Direct air emission measurements from livestock pastures using an unmanned aerial vehicle-based air sampling system. Remote Sensing, 17(17): 3059. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17173059
Jiang, L., N. Ly, N. Akdeniz*. 2025. Assessing ventilation design of dairy buildings equipped with automated milking systems using computational fluid dynamics. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 239, 110904. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2025.110904
Akdeniz*, N. L. Polzin. 2025. Ventilation fans offset potential reductions in milk margin from heat stress in Wisconsin dairy farms. Agriculture, 15(9): 955. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture15090955
Yi, Y., N. Akdeniz*, JM. Shutske, CY. Choi. 2025. Mitigating heat stress for agricultural workers using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Energy and Buildings, 328, 115186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2024.115186
Jiang, L. Y. Yi, N. Akdeniz*. 2024. Energy-saving cooling strategies for tunnel-ventilated dairy buildings: Computational fluid dynamics simulations and validation. Smart Agricultural Technology, 100576. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atech.2024.100576
Yang, D., Y. Wang, N. Akdeniz*. 2024. Field measurements of spatial air emissions from dairy pastures using an unmanned aircraft system. Remote Sensing, 16 (16), 3007. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16163007
Jiang, L. Y. Yi, N. Akdeniz*. 2024. CFD simulations of supplemental cooling techniques in cross-ventilated dairy buildings and associated greenhouse gas emissions. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 108480. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2023.108480
Wang, Y. N. Akdeniz*. 2024. Mathematical modeling of biochar’s role in elevating co-composed poultry carcass temperatures. Waste Management, 173, 40-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2023.11.008
Sun, Z., N. Akdeniz*, C. Banik, J.A. Kozie. 2024. Alkaline hydrolysis of poultry carcasses and health risk assessment of exposure to target volatile organic compounds. Journal of the ASABE, 67 (2), 373-383. https://doi.org/10.13031/ja.15744

Recent Conference Presentations :

Ly, N. N. Akdeniz, Z. Zeng, C. Choi. 2025. Testing the efficacy of positive-pressure ventilation systems (PPTV) for indoor calf housing using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations, ASABE Annual International Meeting, Toronto, Canada
Jiang, L., N. Akdeniz. 2025. Ventilation design for calf hutches using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations, ASABE Annual International Meeting, Toronto, Canada.
Froelich, E. N. Akdeniz. 2025. Optimizing microaeration rates in anaerobic digesters: comparative analysis under mesophilic and thermophilic conditions, ASABE Annual International Meeting, Toronto, Canada.
Yang, D. N. Akdeniz. 2025. Direct air emission measurements using small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) from livestock pastures in Wisconsin. ASABE Annual International Meeting, Toronto, Canada.
Yi, Y. N. Akdeniz. 2025. ASABE Annual International Meeting, Toronto, Canada. CFD Simulations of Photovoltaic-Powered Ventilation Systems in Deep Winter Greenhouses. ASABE Annual International Meeting, Toronto, Canada.
Akdeniz, N. 2025. Online calculators for computing ventilation requirements of dairy buildings. ASABE Annual International Meeting, Toronto, Canada.
Yang, D., N. Akdeniz. 2025. Direct Measurement of Spatial Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Livestock Pastures. Midwest Climate Summit, Madison, WI.

Recent Extension Articles

Greenhouse designs provide an opportunity for year-round crop production in WI

Professional Service

Associate Editor, Natural Resources & Environmental Systems (NRES), ASABE. 2023-current.

ASABE 270X Livestock Ventilation Systems review committee, 2024-current.

ASABE Plant, Animal, and Facility Systems (PAFS) 40 Animal Housing, Facilities and Systems, 2024-current.