Experimental Validation of a Combined Electromagnetic and Thermal FDTD Model of a Microwave Heating Process

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 1995, Pages 2565-2572

  Ma, Lizhuang ^a   Paul, Dominique Lynda ^a   Pothecary, Nick ^a   Railton, Chris ^a   Bows, John ^b   Barratt, Lawrence ^b   Mullin, Jim ^b   Simons, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE OVENS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN MODEL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

MICROWAVE HEATING;

EID: 0029403272     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.473179     Document Type: Article

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