Modelling microwave heating (Q1913044)

The purpose is to review some of the recent developments in the mathematical modelling of microwave heating, including models that consider in isolation the heat equation with a nonlinear source term, in which case the electric-field amplitude is assumed constant, models involving the coupling between the electric-field amplitude and temperature including both steady-state solutions and the initial heating, and also models that control the process of thermal runaway. Numerical modelling of the microwave heating process is also briefly reviewed.