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Calculating the cooling time of solid bodies of various geometric shapes

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Abstract

A simple analytic expression is obtained for determination of the cooling time of solid bodies, in particular, foodstuffs of various geometric shapes.

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  1. Scientific-Research Institute of the Food Preservation Industry, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

    A. G. Fikiin & I. K. Fikiina

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 730–732, April, 1971.

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Fikiin, A.G., Fikiina, I.K. Calculating the cooling time of solid bodies of various geometric shapes. Journal of Engineering Physics 20, 527–529 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00826827

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