KU Leuven – TechConnect Briefs

Numerical Investigation Of Rigid Microparticles Dynamics: Aggregation And Clogging Phenomena In Microfluidics By Discrete Element Method (DEM) And CFD Coupling

Shahzad K., Van Aeken W., Kamyab V.K., Mottaghi M., Kuhn S., KU Leuven, BE

Microfluidics has achieved a positive response in the industrial sector in the last two decades, i.e., due to its minute size plus control over all the chemical and physical properties at various flow rates (Re~1-10) [...]

Contributions of the main flour constituents to dough rheology, and resulting implications for dough quality and its assessment

Meerts M., Cardinaels R., Oosterlinck F., Courtin C.M., Moldenaers P., KU Leuven, BE

Although bread making has been practised for millennia, the fundamental understanding of the relations between dough microstructure and dough behavior/rheology is surprisingly limited. The complex dough matrix consists of a hydrated gluten network that is [...]