AbstractChili production in Indonesia is very unstable because most of chili production areas are open field that are quite influenced by weather. Therefore, it is important to develop hydroponic technology for chili cultivation under greenhouse. As energy-efficient cooling system for tropical greenhouses, root zone cooling could be applied by flowing cooled water in pipes that are burried in the root zone. Determining the space between the pipes for flowing the cooled water requires temperature distribution in the root zone. The objective of this research were to find out the temperature distribution in the root zone, to simulate temperature distribution with based on computational fluid dynamics, and to validate the simulated root zone te...