Principles of homogenization of thermal processing in microwave fixation are described along with a corresponding modeling-based optimization procedure. An innovative microwave fixation system is computationally analyzed. Two geometric parameters as well as complex permittivity of a dielectric insert are identified as design variables of the optimization problem. Performing an illustrative optimization, the procedure outputs the parameters of the system with the relative standard deviation (served as a uniformity metric) of dissipated power reduced by 5 times.

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Creator

• Moon, Ethan Michael

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-043015-114001

Advisor

• Yakovlev, Vadim V.

Year

• 2015

Date created

• 2015-04-30

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mathematical Sciences

Rights statement

• In Copyright