In porous media, heat and mass transfer is a classical model of transport and it is one of the most energy-intensive industrial processes with a wide variety of applications. This present paper is developed in order to explain the coupled heat and mass transfer that arise during drying process. A free mesh generator Gmsh is used and a 3-D unstructured Control Volume Finite Element Method (CVFEM) is employed to simulate the transport phenomena with a convective drying. Several simulation results, that depict the transport phenomenon inside a porous brick are presented and analyzed. Indeed, thanks to this numerical model, we can observe the three-dimensional distribution of temperature, liquid saturation and pressure during double partition brick drying…Read more
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Dr. Ramzi Rzig
Ramzi RZIG, Doctor of Energy Engineering from the National School of Engineers of Monastir from Tunisia. After engineering cycle at the National School of Engineers of Monastir, He did his thesis in heat and mass transfer (Porous Media) in Laboratory of Thermal and Energy Systems Studies. During his professional career, he held several positions in higher education in Tunisia (ISSTE of Borj Cedria & ISET of Kef) and now he hold the position of Research Manager within the company Become by participating in the collaboration of innovative energy projects.