Convective heat and mass transfer modelling at air-porous material interfaces: Overview of existing methods and relevance

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 74, Issue , 2012, Pages 49-58

  Defraeye, Thijs ^a   Blocken, Bert ^b   Derome, Dominique ^c   Nicolai, Bart ^a   Carmeliet, Jan ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Air flow; Computational fluid dynamics; Conjugate modelling; Convective transfer coefficient; Drying; Porous material

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; AIR FLOW; CODE DEVELOPMENT; COMPLEX FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMIC (CFD); CONJUGATE MODELLING; CONJUGATE MODELS; CONVECTIVE DRYING; CONVECTIVE HEAT; CONVECTIVE TRANSFER; DRYING PROCESS; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER ANALOGY; INDUSTRIAL DRIER; MATERIAL INTERFACES; MODELLING STUDIES; OPTIMISATIONS; PRODUCT QUALITY; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRIERS (MATERIALS); DRYING; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HEAT TRANSFER; LOADING; MASS TRANSFER; POROUS MATERIALS;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 84857956075     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2012.02.032     Document Type: Article

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