Computational Simulation and Developments Applied to Food Thermal Processing

Food Engineering Reviews

Volumn 3, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 121-135

  Lemus Mondaca, Roberto A ^a,b   Vega Gálvez, Antonio ^b   Moraga, Nelson O ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOLOGÍA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Convection diffusion; Dehydration; Food engineering; Freezing; Numerical modeling; Sterilization

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION; CONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES; EFFICIENT DESIGNS; FINITE DIFFERENCE; FINITE ELEMENT; FINITE VOLUME; FOOD ENGINEERING; FOOD FREEZING; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; NONCONJUGATED; NUMERICAL MODELING; PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; THERMAL PROCESS;

DEHYDRATION; DEWATERING; FLUID MECHANICS; FOOD PROCESSING; FREEZING; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL METHODS; STERILIZATION (CLEANING);

PROCESSED FOODS;

EID: 81355123248     PISSN: 18667910     EISSN: 18667929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12393-011-9040-x     Document Type: Review

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