COUPLED ELECTROMAGNETIC AND TERMAL MODELING OF MICROWAVE OVEN HEATING OF FOODS

摘要

Temperature distributions from heating in a domestic microwave oven were studied by considering the coupling between the electromagnetics and heat transfer through changes in dielectric properties during heating. Maxwell's equations for electromagetics and the thermal energy equations are solved numerically using two separate finite- element softwares. The coupling between the softwares was developed by writing special modules that interfaced these software at the system level.