Microwave heating of ready meals - FDTD simulation tools for improving the heating uniformity

Advances in Microwave and Radio Frequency Processing - Report from the 8th International Conference on Microwave and High Frequency Heating

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 243-255

  Wappling Raaholt B ^a   Risman, P O ^b   Ohlsson, T ^a  

^a SIK THE SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR FOOD AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Box 7   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FOOD PRODUCTS; MICROWAVE HEATING; MICROWAVES; THERMAL PROCESSING (FOODS);

DIMENSIONAL SUBSPACE; FDTD SIMULATIONS; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATION; HEATING UNIFORMITY; MULTI-LINEAR REGRESSION; OPTIMISATIONS; READY MEALS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 84870648499     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-32944-2_27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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