Numerical simulation of diffusive processes in solids of revolution via the finite volume method and generalized coordinates

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 52, Issue 21-22, 2009, Pages 4976-4985

  da Silva, Wilton Pereira ^a   Precker, Jürgen W ^a   e Silva, Diogo D P S ^b   e Silva, Cleiton D P S ^c   de Lima, Antonio Gilson Barbosa ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINA GRANDE   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE AERONÁUTICA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Complex geometries; Diffusive transport; Discretization; Drying; Fully implicit formulation; Non orthogonal grids; Structured two dimensional grid

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; DIFFUSIVE TRANSPORT; DISCRETIZATION; FULLY IMPLICIT FORMULATION; NON-ORTHOGONAL GRIDS; STRUCTURED TWO-DIMENSIONAL GRID;

COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; DEWATERING; DIFFUSION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

TWO DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 68749105841     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2009.05.008     Document Type: Article

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