A combined electromagnetic and heat transfer model for heating of foods in microwave combination ovens

Journal of Microwave Power and Electromagnetic Energy

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 97-111

  Wappling Raaholt B ^a   Scheerlinck, N ^b   Galt, S ^c   Banga, J R ^d   Alonso, A ^e   Balsa Canto, E ^d   Van Impe, J ^f   Ohlsson, T ^a   Nicolai B M ^b  

^a Swedish Inst for Food and   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MARINAS   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^f BioTec   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic modelling; Heat transfer; Microwave heating

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOOD PROCESSING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HEAT CONDUCTION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MICROWAVE OVENS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY CONDITION; ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELLING; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; MICROWAVE COMBINATION OVEN; SOFTWARE PACKAGE FINITE ELEMENT HEAT TRANSFER CODE;

MICROWAVE HEATING;

EID: 0036435833     PISSN: 08327823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08327823.2002.11688473     Document Type: Article

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