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Heterogeneous Multi-Rate mass transfer models in OPENFOAM® (2020)
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Municchi, F., Di Pasquale, N., Dentz, M., & Icardi, M. (2021). Heterogeneous Multi-Rate mass transfer models in OPENFOAM®. Computer Physics Communications, 261, Article 107763. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2020.107763

© 2020 Elsevier B.V. We implement the Multi-Rate Mass Transfer (MRMT) model for mobile–immobile transport in porous media (Haggerty and Gorelick, 1995; Municchi and Icardi, 2019 [1]) within the open-source finite volume library OPENFOAM® (Foundation,... Read More about Heterogeneous Multi-Rate mass transfer models in OPENFOAM®.

Numerical simulation of crust freezing in processed meat: A fully coupled solid–fluid approach (2020)
Journal Article
Greiciunas, E., Municchi, F., Di Pasquale, N., & Icardi, M. (2020). Numerical simulation of crust freezing in processed meat: A fully coupled solid–fluid approach. Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A Applications, 78(8), 378-391. https://doi.org/10.1080/10407782.2020.1793546

© 2020, © 2020 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. We present a numerical model for the simulation of continuous impingement freezing of processed food products. This model is capable of fully describing the fluid dynamics of the non-isothermal flow field... Read More about Numerical simulation of crust freezing in processed meat: A fully coupled solid–fluid approach.

Probability density function (PDF) models for particle transport in porous media (2020)
Journal Article
Icardi, M., & Dentz, M. (2020). Probability density function (PDF) models for particle transport in porous media. GEM - International Journal on Geomathematics, 11(1), Article 20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13137-020-00153-z

© 2020, The Author(s). Mathematical models based on probability density functions (PDF) have been extensively used in hydrology and subsurface flow problems, to describe the uncertainty in porous media properties (e.g., permeability modelled as rando... Read More about Probability density function (PDF) models for particle transport in porous media.

Numerical simulation of droplet impact on wettability-patterned surfaces (2020)
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Russo, A., Icardi, M., Elsharkawy, M., Ceglia, D., Asinari, P., & Megaridis, C. M. (2020). Numerical simulation of droplet impact on wettability-patterned surfaces. Physical Review Fluids, 5(7), Article 074002. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.5.074002

© 2020 American Physical Society. Numerical simulations have unexplored potential in the study of droplet impact on nonuniform wettability surfaces. In this paper, we compare numerical and experimental results to investigate the application potentia... Read More about Numerical simulation of droplet impact on wettability-patterned surfaces.

Computational analysis of transport in three-dimensional heterogeneous materials: An OpenFOAM®-based simulation framework (2020)
Journal Article
Boccardo, G., Crevacore, E., Passalacqua, A., & Icardi, M. (2020). Computational analysis of transport in three-dimensional heterogeneous materials: An OpenFOAM®-based simulation framework. Computing and Visualization in Science, 23, Article 4. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00791-020-00321-6

© 2020, The Author(s). Porous and heterogeneous materials are found in many applications from composites, membranes, chemical reactors, and other engineered materials to biological matter and natural subsurface structures. In this work we propose an... Read More about Computational analysis of transport in three-dimensional heterogeneous materials: An OpenFOAM®-based simulation framework.