Cornell University Biological and Environmental Engineering

Selected Publications and Invited Presentations

Books

• Handbook of Food and Bioprocess Modeling Techniques.
  Sablani, S. S., A. K. Datta, M. S. Rahman and A. S. Mujumdar, editors. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, Florida. Expected December 2006.
• Biological and Bioenvironmental Heat and Mass Transfer.
  Datta, A. K. 2002. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, Florida. ISBN 0-8247-0775-3. 383 pages.
• Handbook of Microwave Technology for Food Applications.
  Datta, A. K. and R. C. Anantheswaran, editors. 2001. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, Florida. ISBN 0-8247-0490-8. 511 pages.

Book Chapters

• Datta, A. K. 2006. Physics-based models in food processing: Heat transfer. In Handbook of Food and Bioprocess Modeling Techniques. Edited by S. S. Sablani, A. K. Datta, M. S. Rahman and A. S. Mujumdar. Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, Florida.
• Datta, A. K. 2002. Enabling computer-aided food process engineering: Status and needs. In Computational Techniques in Food Engineering, Edited by E. Balsa-Canto, J. Mora, J. R. Banga and E. Onate. International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), Barcelona, Spain. pp. 3-14.
• Datta, A. K. 2001. Fundamentals of heat and moisture transport for microwave processing of foods. Handbook of Microwave Technology for Food Applications. Edited by A. K. Datta and R. C. Anantheswaran, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, NY.

Journal Papers

• Halder, A., A. K. Datta and S. S. R. Geedipalli. Uncertainty in thermal process calculations due to variability in first-order and Weibull parameters. Submitted to the Journal of Food Science.
• Schweitzer, A.D., V. Rakesh, E. Revskaya, A. K. Datta, A. Casadevall and E. Dadachova. 2006. Finite element-based computational model of radioactivity delivery to a melanoma tumor during radio-immunotherapy with melanin-binding antibody. Submitted to Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Datta, A. K. 2005. Porous media approaches to studying simultaneous heat and mass transfer in food processes. I: Problem formulations. Accepted in Journal of Food Engineering.
• Zhang, J., A. K. Datta and S. Mukherjee. 2005. Transport processes and large deformation during baking of bread. American Institute of Chemical Engineers Journal, 51(9):2569-2580.
• Datta, A. K., S.S.R. Geedipalli and M. Almeida. 2005. Microwave combination heating. Food Technology. 59(1):36-40.
• Zhang, H. and A. K. Datta. 2003. Microwave power absorption in single and multi-component foods. Transactions of the Institution of Chemical Engineers. 81C:257-266.
• Zhang, H., A. K. Datta, I. A. Taub and C. Doona. 2001. Electromagnetics, heat transfer, and thermokinetics in microwave sterilization. American Institute of Chemical Engineers Journal. 47(9):1957-1968.
• Ni, H. and A. K. Datta. 1999. Moisture, oil, and energy transport during deep-fat frying of food materials. Transactions of the Institution of Chemical Engineers: Food and Bioproducts Processing. 77C(9):1-11.
• Ni, H., A. K. Datta and K. E. Torrance. 1999. Moisture transport in intensive microwave heating of biomaterials: A multiphase porous media model. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 42(8):1501-1512.
• Shi, X., A. K. Datta and Y. Mukherjee. 1998. Thermal stresses from large volumetric expansion during freezing of biomaterials. The Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 120:720-726.

Invited Presentations

• Datta, A. K. 2006. Porous Media (Macroscale) Models for Foods. In Wageningen University Seminars—Soft Matter: Food for Computers. (Advanced simulation of soft matter as food at multiple scales), Wageningen, The Netherlands, February 8-9.
• Datta, A. K. 2005. Modeling heat and mass transfer in food systems: Current state and needs. EUROTHERM Seminar 77—Heat and Mass Transfer in Food Processing, Part of the 23rd National Congress on Heat Transfer of the Italian Union of Thermal-Fluid Dynamics, Parma, Italy, June 20-22. Proceedings of the conference, Pages 3-8.
• Datta, A. K. 2005. Porous media approaches to modeling food processes. EUROTHERM Seminar 77—Heat and Mass Transfer in Food Processing, Part of the 23rd National Congress on Heat Transfer of the Italian Union of Thermal-Fluid Dynamics, Parma, Italy, June 20-22. Proceedings of the conference, Pages 9-13.
• Datta, A. K. 2003. Some unique challenges and their possible solutions in computer-aided food process engineering. Invited speaker at the Second International Workshop on Mathematical and Computing Technologies for Agro-Food Technologies, Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 27-28. Proceedings of the conference, Pages 1-4.
• Datta, A. K. 2003. Enabling modeling as a tool in food product, process and equipment design. Invited speaker in the International Symposium on Future Technologies for Food Production and Future Food Scientists, Göteborg, Sweden, June 2-4. Proceedings of the Symposium published by SIK-Dokument no 162, ISSN 0280-9737, Kompendiet, Göteborg, Sweden, pp. 64-67.