TY  - EJOU
AU  - Khedher, Nidhal Ben 

TI  - EFFECT OF THE VARIABILITY OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER  COEFFICIENTS ON 3D UNSATURATED POROUS MEDIUM DRYING
T2  - Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer

PY  - 2018
VL  - 10
IS  - 1
SN  - 2151-8629

AB  - A Three-dimensional unstructured control volume finite method is developed to simulate unsteady coupled heat and mass transfer phenomena that 
arise during convective drying of unsaturated porous media. In order to simulate 3D geometries, as application here the drying of clay brick portion, 
we developed a Fortran code based on 3D unstructured meshes generated by the free mesh generator Gmsh. Several simulation results are presented 
and depict the effect of the variability of heat and mass transfer coefficients. These simulations prove that only three-dimensional model is able to 
capture the effect of variability of heat and mass transfer coefficients.
KW  - <i>Porous medium
KW  - 3D drying
KW  -  Gmsh
KW  -  MVCEF
KW  -  mass and heat transfer</i>

DO  - 10.5098/hmt.10.28