Modeling airflow through vented packages containing horticultural products

Computational Fluid Dynamics in Food Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 649-696

  Ferrua, Maria J ^a   Singh, R Paul ^a  

^a Univ of California   (United States)

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