Heat and Mass Transfer Modelling During Drying: Empirical to Multiscale Approaches

In food drying, simultaneous heat and mass transfer phenomena take place, and in order to design energy efficient dryers and higher quality dried foods, effective modelling is critical.

Dr. Mohammad U. H. Joardder received his BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET), and PhD from QUT, Australia. He is now serving as a faculty member in Mechanical Engineering of RUET. His research interests include bio-transport, Innovative food drying, modelling of novel food processing, food microstructure, as well as Renewable energy. Moreover, his research focuses on applying state-of-the-art computational methods to Multiphysics- Multiscale transport phenomena, and deformation of porous biomaterials. He authored three popular books with the springer-nature publication, three books chapter and more than 40 peer-reviewed journal publications. Most of his journal articles are in highly ranked journals and have been well cited. He is a regular reviewer of several high ranked journals of prominent publishers including Nature, Springer, Elsevier, Willey, and Taylor and Francis.

Md. Washim Akram has completed his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology (RUET), Bangladesh. He is a Faculty Member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Bangladesh Army University of Science and Technology (BAUST), Saidpur, Bangladesh. He has published several Journal and Conference papers. His research interest includes drying technology, waste management and energy conversion technology, energy harvesting from renewable sources, and composite materials.

Dr Azharul Karim is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Discipline, Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. He received his PhD degree from Melbourne University in 2007. Through his scholarly, innovative, high quality research, he has established a national and international standing. Dr Karim has authored over 194 peer-reviewed articles, including 94 high quality journal papers, 13 peer-reviewed book chapters, and four books. His papers have attracted about 3100 citations with h-index 30. His research has very high impact worldwide as demonstrated by his overall field weighted citation index (FWCI) of 2.99. He is editor/board member of six reputed journals including Drying Technology and Nature Scientific Reports and supervisor of 26 past and current PhD students. He has been keynote/distinguished speaker at scores of international conferences and invited/keynote speaker in seminars in many reputed universities worldwide. He has won multiple international awards for his outstanding contributions in multidisciplinary fields. His research is directed towards solving acute food industry problems by advanced multiscale and multiphase food drying models of cellular water using theoretical/computational and experimental methodologies. Due to the multidisciplinary framework of food drying models, his research spans engineering, mathematics, biology, physics and chemistry. To address this multidisciplinary challenge, he established the ’Energy and Drying’ Research Group consisting of academics and researchers across disciplines.