Conjugate heat and mass transfer in drying: A modeling review

Coupled transfer mechanisms are common in a variety of industrial operations, as in food drying, and their virtualization is becoming indispensable. In this paper one such situation, a rectangular food chunk exposed to heat and mass transfer by a turbulent cross flow of air in a channel (Re ≃ 1·104), is investigated by modeling the transfer mechanisms (linked each other by evaporation) in conjunction with the inherent flow transport. This formulation is referred to as a conjugate problem.