...Watit Pakdee; Phadungsak Rattanadecho Microwave heating of a porous medium with a nonuniform porosity is numerically investigated based on a proposed numerical model. A two-dimensional variation of porosity of the medium is considered. The generalized non-Darcian model developed takes into account...

...Phadungsak Rattanadecho; Waraporn Klinbun This paper proposes mathematical models of the microwave heating process of dielectric materials filled in a rectangular waveguide with a resonator. A microwave system supplies a monochromatic wave in a fundamental mode ( TE 10 mode). A convection exchange...

... alumina ceramics composite materials finite element analysis heat transfer microwave heating plasticity polymers silicon compounds temperature distribution microwave heating thermoplastics Nylon 66 polymer composites ceramics Microwave heating is advantageous over conventional...

...P. Rattanadecho; N. Suwannapum; W. Cha-um Microwave heating-drying of hardened Type I-cement paste using a rectangular waveguide is a relatively new area of cement-based materials research. In order to gain insight into the phenomena that occur within the waveguide together with the temperature...

...P. Rattanadecho; K. Aoki and; M. Akahori The heating of multi-layered materials by microwave heating with rectangular wave guide has been investigated numerically and experimentally. The multi-layered materials, which consist of the layer of higher dielectric material (antireflection layer...

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