| Cereal quality preservation is traditionally the accountability of grain storekeepers who count on profound knowledge discovered through scientific research. The main purpose of this research study was to predict the evolution of wheat temperature in unaerated silo during storage period under Tunisia climate. First, a bidimensional mathematical combined model (silo wall model + heat transfer model in grain bulk), which describes the distribution of the unsteady temperature in a cylindrical grain storage system, was presented and simulated using the parabolic solver incorporated in the Matlab 2015a environment. Mesh refinement at the shortest boundaries, including triangular elements, was adopted to simulate storage temperatures. In this numerical model,... |
