Recent developments in numerical modelling of heating and cooling processes in the food industry - A review

Trends in Food Science and Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 408-423

  Wang, Lijun ^a   Sun, Da Wen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEATING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

POROUS FOODS;

FOOD PRODUCTS PLANTS;

EID: 0141456006     PISSN: 09242244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-2244(03)00151-1     Document Type: Article

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