ABSTRACT
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Engineers are presently turning to the power of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to
model industrial processes, accomplish comprehensive analyses, and design more efficient
systems. The adoption of CFD over the recent years has been inevitable and progressive, as
the high costs and time consumption associated with experimentation have often precluded
the desire to produce efficient in-depth results. Moreover, associated assumptions, general-
izations, and approximations have inhibited analytical models from developing comprehen-
sive flow solutions. By coupling these limitations with the recent advances in the development
of numerical solutions for the Navier-Stokes equations, and the enhancement of computing
power and efficiency, it is easy to understand why the application of CFD has developed into
a viable alternative in the food industry.
