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Computer simulation is a powerful tool for prediction and optimal design in food and agricultural engineering operations. Partial differential equations describing momentum, heat and mass transfer coupled with equilibrium and kinetic equations, which usually form a model for a processing operation, can be solved easily with today's computing capabilities. In this paper, a brief description of the principles of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for the solution of fluid flows with heat and mass transfer is given. Selected examples from the food and agricultural engineering literature including applications in ventilation systems for greenhouses, animal housing, orchard spraying, airflow in refrigerated trucks, air flow through vented packages, drying of fruits, spray drying of liquid foods, chilling of meat, baking ovens design, heat exchanger design, canning and more are presented. © 2010 Czech University of Life Sciences Prague. |
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