Dr Kai Knoerzer, Dr Pablo Juliano and Dr Peter Roupas are all Research Project Leaders and Food Process Engineers at CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences, Melbourne, Australia. Dr Cornelis Versteeg served as Director of the Innovative Foods Centre, Food Science Australia, (CSIRO) and is now a Post-Retirement Fellow at CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences, Melbourne, Australia CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) is an Australian Federal Government agency (independent statutory authority) and the primary authority on food safety in Australia.

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• Preface ixContributors xiii1. Introduction to Innovative Food Processing Technologies: Background, Advantages, Issues, and Need for Multiphysics Modeling 3Gustavo V. Barbosa-Cánovas, Abdul Ghani Albaali, Pablo Juliano, and Kai Knoerzer2. The Need for Thermophysical Properties in Simulating Emerging Food Processing Technologies 23Pablo Juliano, Francisco Javier Trujillo, Gustavo V. Barbosa-Cánovas, and Kai Knoerzer3. Neural Networks: Their Role in High-Pressure Processing 39José S. Torrecilla and Pedro D. Sanz4. Computational Fluid Dynamics Applied in High-Pressure Processing Scale-Up 57Cornelia Rauh and Antonio Delgado5. Computational Fluid Dynamics Applied in High-Pressure High-Temperature Processes: Spore Inactivation Distribution and Process Optimization 75Pablo Juliano, Kai Knoerzer, and Cornelis Versteeg6. Computer Simulation for Microwave Heating 101Hao Chen and Juming Tang7. Simulating and Measuring Transient Three-Dimensional Temperature Distributions in Microwave Processing 131Kai Knoerzer, Marc Regier, and Helmar Schubert8. Multiphysics Modeling of Ohmic Heating 155Peter J. Fryer, Georgina Porras-Parral, and Serafim Bakalis9. Basics for Modeling of Pulsed Electric Field Processing of Foods 171Nicolás Meneses, Henry Jaeger, and Dietrich Knorr10. Computational Fluid Dynamics Applied in Pulsed Electric Field Preservation of Liquid Foods 193Nicolás Meneses, Henry Jaeger, and Dietrich Knorr11. Novel, Multi-Objective Optimization of Pulsed Electric Field Processing for Liquid Food Treatment 209Jens Krauss, Özgür Ertunç, Cornelia Rauh, and Antonio Delgado12. Modeling the Acoustic Field and Streaming Induced by an Ultrasonic Horn Reactor 233Francisco Javier Trujillo and Kai Knoerzer13. Computational Study of Ultrasound-Assisted Drying of Food Materials 265Enrique Riera, José Vicente García-Pérez, Juan Andrés Cárcel, Victor M. Acosta, and Juan A. Gallego-Juárez14. Characterization and Simulation of Ultraviolet Processing of Liquid Foods Using Computational Fluid Dynamics 303Larry Forney, Tatiana Koutchma, and Zhengcai Ye15. Multiphysics Modeling of Ultraviolet Disinfection of Liquid Food—Performance Evaluation Using a Concept of Disinfection Efficiency 325Huachen Pan16. Continuous Chromatographic Separation Technology—Modeling and Simulation 335Filip Janakievski17. The Future of Multiphysics Modeling of Innovative Food Processing Technologies 353Peter J. Fryer, Kai Knoerzer, and Pablo JulianoIndex 365