Numerical simulations of microwave heating of liquids: enhancements using Krylov subspace methods

Modern Microwave Methods in Solid-State Inorganic Materials Chemistry: From Fundamentals to Manufacturing

“…254 To the best of our knowledge, there has been little further progress on coupling to numerical chemical solvers, with attention instead focusing on coupling via Navier−Stokes equations to fluid flow in liquids. 255,256 A further challenge lies in validating the simulation (see section 7). For a MW heating application, it is difficult to validate the electric field distribution directly, because it is usually inside an enclosed cavity.…”

“…For example, numerical analysis of a saponification reaction in dilute solution coupled a finite-difference time-domain solver to a thermal transport solver and a chemical solver based on the rate equation, but the results were restricted to a small temperature change of less than 10 °C, starting from room temperature . To the best of our knowledge, there has been little further progress on coupling to numerical chemical solvers, with attention instead focusing on coupling via Navier–Stokes equations to fluid flow in liquids. , …”