The numerical modeling of the coupled heat and mass transfer processes prevalent in
drying non-hygroscopic and hygroscopic capillary porous materials is dealt with. A set of
volume averaged governing equations is employed for this purpose. An improved hybrid
unstructured vertex-centered edge-based finite volume algorithm is used for spatial
discretization purposes. Enhancements include reformulation of boundary integral flux-
averaging in conjunction with the use of a compact stencil in the computation of diffusive …

The numerical modeling of the coupled heat and mass transfer processes prevalent in
drying non-hygroscopic and hygroscopic capillary particulate materials is dealt with. A set of
volume averaged governing equations is employed for this purpose. An improved
unstructured hybrid vertex-centered edge-based finite volume algorithm is used for spatial
discretization purposes. Enhancements include reformulation of boundary integral flux-
averaging in conjunction with the use of a compact stencil in the computation of diffusive …