Finite element computation of unsteady phase change heat transfer during freezing or thawing of food using a combined enthalpy and Kirchhoff transform method

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 429-438

  Scheerlinck, N ^a   Verboven, P ^a   Fikiin, K A ^a   De Baerdemaeker, J ^a   Nicolai B M ^a  

^a Flanders Centre of Postharvest Technology   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Enthalpy; Finite element; Heat transfer; Kirchhoff function; Phase changes; Simulation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTHALPY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FREEZING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPECIFIC HEAT OF SOLIDS; THAWING; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS;

KIRCHOFF TRANSFORM METHODS;

HEAT TRANSFER;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOOD; FREEZING; HEAT TRANSFER; THAWING;

EID: 0034836603     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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