Computer Simulation for Microwave Heating

Innovative Food Processing Technologies: Advances in Multiphysics Simulation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 101-130

  Chen, Hao ^a   Tang, Juming ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer simulation for microwave heating; E and H field arrangement of FDTD algorithm one dimensional wave propagation using central difference time stepping procedures; EM wave equations a differential or an integral form; FDTD method, and advantages over other numerical methods; FEM discretization for irregular geometry popular method to numerically solve EM problems, the FEM; Microwave (MW) heating used in food processing unit operations; MW heating equations dissipated power in dielectric materials; MW sterilization technology novel technology, benefits over conventional methods; Rectangular geometry for wave propagation; Simulation model for MW sterilization MW energy, heating solid food products in a short time

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860658780     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470959435.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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