ABSTRACT
The computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technique is already well established and many books can be found describing this technique in great detail. Implementing the technique for modeling the spray-drying process, however, is not a trivial endeavor. The engineer or modeler will have to understand how to effectively numerically capture the important airflow characteristics, droplet drying behavior, and the particles transport phenomenon typically occurring within the drying chamber. This is precisely the aim of this book: how to numerically capture the important physical phenomena within a spraydrying process using the CFD technique. Therefore, this book is not a basic treatment of the CFD technique. It is also not a discussion fundamentally focusing on the physics of spray drying. The key word here is “numerical capture” and it is the aim of this book to link the physical phenomena involved with the numerical aspect on how they can be represented numerically in a CFD simulation. The book will also include numerical strategies in effectively capturing these phenomena numerically. These strategies are collated from research work in this area and from CFD industrial consultation particularly to the dairy industry.
