Development of an approximate empirical-CFD model estimating coupled heat and water transfers of stacked food products placed in airflow

Journal of Food Engineering

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 208-216

  Page, Jean François Le ^a   Chevarin, Cyril ^a   Kondjoyan, Alain ^a   Daudin, Jean Dominique ^a   Mirade, Pierre Sylvain ^a  

^a UR370 QuaPA   (France)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Coupled heat and water transfers; Relative air humidity field; Stacked food products; User defined function (UDF)

Indexed keywords

AIR; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DEWATERING; DRYING; DYNAMICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FOOD PRODUCTS; FUNCTIONS; MASS TRANSFER; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD); COUPLED HEAT AND WATER TRANSFERS; RELATIVE AIR HUMIDITY FIELD; STACKED FOOD PRODUCTS; USER-DEFINED FUNCTION (UDF);

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 59349096446     PISSN: 02608774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2008.11.001     Document Type: Article

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