A computational model of coupled heat and moisture transfer with phase change in granular sugar during varying environmental conditions

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 751-776

  Wang, Junye ^a   Christakis, Nicholas ^a   Patel, Mayur K ^a   Cross, Mark ^a   Leaper, Mark C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATION THEORY; GRANULAR MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

BOUNDARY REGIONS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE OSCILLATIONS; VAPOR CONCENTRATION GRADIENTS;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 2542468642     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407780490424280     Document Type: Article

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