Inverse Approaches to Drying of Thin Bodies With Significant Shrinkage Effects

2006 ◽  
Vol 129 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gligor H. Kanevce ◽  
Ljubica P. Kanevce ◽  
Vangelce B. Mitrevski ◽  
George S. Dulikravich ◽  
Helcio R. B. Orlande

This paper deals with the application of inverse concepts to the drying of bodies that undergo changes in their dimensions. Simultaneous estimation is performed of moisture diffusivity, together with the thermal conductivity, heat capacity, density, and phase conversion factor of a drying body, as well as the heat and mass transfer coefficients and the relative humidity of drying air. This was accomplished by using only temperature measurements. A mathematical model of the drying process of shrinking bodies has been developed where the moisture content and temperature fields in the drying body are expressed by a system of two coupled partial differential equations. The shrinkage effect was incorporated through the experimentally obtained changes of the specific volume of the drying body in an experimental convective dryer. The proposed method was applied to the process of drying potatoes. For the estimation of the unknown parameters, the transient readings of a single temperature sensor located in the midplane of the potato slice, exposed to convective drying, have been used. The Levenberg–Marquardt method and a hybrid optimization method of minimization of the least-squares norm are used to solve the present parameter estimation problem. Analyses of the sensitivity coefficients and of the determinant of the information matrix are presented as well.

2005 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ljubica Kanevce ◽  
Gligor Kanevce ◽  
George Dulikravich

This paper deals with the application of inverse approaches to estimation of drying body parameters. Simultaneous estimation of the thermo physical properties of a drying body as well as the heat and mass transfer coefficients, by using only temperature measurements, is analyzed. A mathematical model of the drying process has been developed, where the moisture content and temperature fields in the drying body are expressed by a system of two coupled partial differential equations. For the estimation of the unknown parameters, the transient readings of a single temperature sensor located in an infinite flat plate, exposed to convective drying, have been used. The Levenberg-Marquardt method and a hybrid optimization method of minimization of the least-squares norm are used to solve the present parameter estimation problem. An analysis of the influence of the drying air velocity, drying air temperature, drying body dimension, and drying time on the thermophysical properties estimation, that enables the design of the proper experiments by using the so-called D-optimum criterion was conducted. In order to perform this analysis, the sensitivity coefficients and the sensitivity matrix determinant were calculated for the characteristic drying regimes and the drying body dimensions.


Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 6577
Author(s):  
Marcin Stasiak ◽  
Grzegorz Musielak ◽  
Dominik Mierzwa

A new optimization method for the assessment of the coefficients existing in a model of drying kinetics is developed and presented in this article. This method consists of matching the drying kinetics resulting from the mathematical model with the drying kinetics resulting from the experiments. Both the heat and mass transfer coefficients, the critical relative humidity, and the additional ultrasound energy (heat) source are included in the optimization procedure. The Adams–Bashforth multistep method of solving nonlinear ordinary differential equations is used. The inverse problem of model parameter estimation is solved by the Rosenbrock optimization method. The methodology is illustrated by the example of the ultrasound-assisted convective drying of apple and carrot. A high level of agreement between the results obtained experimentally and numerically was found. The obtained results confirmed the great influence of ultrasound on the drying kinetics. It was found that ultrasound application improved the mass transfer by 20–80% and heat transfer by 30–90%. It was also found that the heating effect caused by the ultrasound’s absorption was very small, with a value below 1%.


2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jozef Cernecky ◽  
Jan Koniar ◽  
Zuzana Brodnianska

Abstract The paper deals with a study of the effect of regulating elements on local values of heat transfer coefficients along shaped heat exchange surfaces with forced air convection. The use of combined methods of heat transfer intensification, i.e. a combination of regulating elements with appropriately shaped heat exchange areas seems to be highly effective. The study focused on the analysis of local values of heat transfer coefficients in indicated cuts, in distances expressed as a ratio x/s for 0; 0.33; 0.66 and 1. As can be seen from our findings, in given conditions the regulating elements can increase the values of local heat transfer coefficients along shaped heat exchange surfaces. An optical method of holographic interferometry was used for the experimental research into temperature fields in the vicinity of heat exchange surfaces. The obtained values correspond very well with those of local heat transfer coefficients αx, recorded in a CFD simulation.


1987 ◽  
Vol 109 (3) ◽  
pp. 599-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
An-Shik Yang ◽  
Ching-Chang Chieng

An anisotropic factor is carefully selected from eleven distributions and adopted to the k–ε two-equation model of turbulence to obtain detailed velocity and temperature fields for steady-state, fully developed turbulent flow through infinite triangular/square rod array. The present study covers the ranges of pitch-to-diameter ratio from 1.123 to 1.5, and Reynolds number from 2.4 × 104 to 106. Velocity and wall shear stress are calculated and compared to experimental data. Normalized fluid temperature, friction factor, and heat transfer coefficient are also computed. The correlations of friction factor and heat transfer coefficients for flow inside circular pipe and flow through finite rod arrays are compared with the results for flow through infinite rod arrays.


2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilton Pereira da Silva ◽  
Cleide M. D. P. S. e Silva ◽  
Aluizio Freire da Silva Junior ◽  
Alexandre José de Melo Queiroz

Abstract This article uses several liquid diffusion models to describe convective drying of bananas cut into cylindrical pieces. A two-dimensional numerical solution of the diffusion equation with boundary condition of the third kind, obtained through the finite volume method, was used to describe the process. The cylindrical pieces were cut into the following dimensions: length of about 21 mm and average radius of 15 mm. Drying air temperatures were 40°C, 50°C, 60°C and 70°C. In order to determine the process parameters, an optimizer was coupled with the numerical solution. A model that considers the shrinkage and variable effective moisture diffusivity well describes drying for all the experimental conditions, and enables to predict the moisture distributions at any given time. For this model, the determination coefficient has varied from 0.99937 (70°C) to 0.99995 (40°C), while the chi-square ranged from 3.41 × 10−4 (40°C) to 4.15 × 10−3 (70°C).


Complexity ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Ahmed A. Mahmoud ◽  
Sarat C. Dass ◽  
Mohana S. Muthuvalu ◽  
Vijanth S. Asirvadam

This article presents statistical inference methodology based on maximum likelihoods for delay differential equation models in the univariate setting. Maximum likelihood inference is obtained for single and multiple unknown delay parameters as well as other parameters of interest that govern the trajectories of the delay differential equation models. The maximum likelihood estimator is obtained based on adaptive grid and Newton-Raphson algorithms. Our methodology estimates correctly the delay parameters as well as other unknown parameters (such as the initial starting values) of the dynamical system based on simulation data. We also develop methodology to compute the information matrix and confidence intervals for all unknown parameters based on the likelihood inferential framework. We present three illustrative examples related to biological systems. The computations have been carried out with help of mathematical software: MATLAB® 8.0 R2014b.


1987 ◽  
Vol 109 (4) ◽  
pp. 912-918 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Parsons ◽  
M. L. Arey

Experiments have been performed which describe the transient development of natural convective flow from both a single and two vertically aligned horizontal cylindrical heat sources. The temperature of the wire heat sources was monitored with a resistance bridge arrangement while the development of the flow field was observed optically with a Mach–Zehnder interferometer. Results for the single wire show that after an initial regime where the wire temperature follows pure conductive response to a motionless fluid, two types of fluid motion will begin. The first is characterized as a local buoyancy, wherein the heated fluid adjacent to the wire begins to rise. The second is the onset of global convective motion, this being governed by the thermal stability of the fluid layer immediately above the cylinder. The interaction of these two motions is dependent on the heating rate and relative heat capacities of the cylinder and fluid, and governs whether the temperature response will exceed the steady value during the transient (overshoot). The two heat source experiments show that the merging of the two developing temperature fields is hydrodynamically stabilizing and thermally insulating. For small spacing-to-diameter ratios, the development of convective motion is delayed and the heat transfer coefficients degraded by the proximity of another heat source. For larger spacings, the transient behavior approaches that of a single isolated cylinder.


PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. e0249028
Author(s):  
Ehsan Fayyazishishavan ◽  
Serpil Kılıç Depren

The two-parameter of exponentiated Gumbel distribution is an important lifetime distribution in survival analysis. This paper investigates the estimation of the parameters of this distribution by using lower records values. The maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) procedure of the parameters is considered, and the Fisher information matrix of the unknown parameters is used to construct asymptotic confidence intervals. Bayes estimator of the parameters and the corresponding credible intervals are obtained by using the Gibbs sampling technique. Two real data set is provided to illustrate the proposed methods.


2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-201
Author(s):  
Baghdad Science Journal

This paper interest to estimation the unknown parameters for generalized Rayleigh distribution model based on censored samples of singly type one . In this paper the probability density function for generalized Rayleigh is defined with its properties . The maximum likelihood estimator method is used to derive the point estimation for all unknown parameters based on iterative method , as Newton – Raphson method , then derive confidence interval estimation which based on Fisher information matrix . Finally , testing whether the current model ( GRD ) fits to a set of real data , then compute the survival function and hazard function for this real data.


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