Recent advances in computational prediction of molecular properties in food chemistry

N Wang, ZH Zang, BB Sun, B Li, JL Tian - Food Research International, 2024 - Elsevier
The combination of food chemistry and computational simulation has brought many impacts
to food research, moving from experimental chemistry to computer chemistry. This paper will …

A physics-informed neural network-based surrogate framework to predict moisture concentration and shrinkage of a plant cell during drying

CP Batuwatta-Gamage, CM Rathnayaka… - Journal of Food …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents a Physics-Informed Neural Network-based (PINN-based) surrogate
framework, which can couple time-based moisture concentration and moisture-content …

A novel physics-informed neural networks approach (PINN-MT) to solve mass transfer in plant cells during drying

CP Batuwatta-Gamage, C Rathnayaka… - Biosystems …, 2023 - Elsevier
Predicting microscale mechanisms of plant-based food materials has been an enduring
challenge due to the inherent complexity of involved physics and prohibitively-high …

A physics-informed neural network framework to investigate nonlinear and heterogenous shrinkage of drying plant cells

CP Batuwatta-Gamage, CM Rathnayaka… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper introduces a novel Physics-Informed Neural Network-based (PINN-based) multi-
domain computational framework to analyse nonlinear and heterogeneous morphological …

Modelling processes and products in the cereal chain

O Carvalho, MN Charalambides, I Djekić… - Foods, 2021 - mdpi.com
In recent years, modelling techniques have become more frequently adopted in the field of
food processing, especially for cereal-based products, which are among the most consumed …

A data-driven smoothed particle hydrodynamics method for fluids

J Bai, Y Zhou, CM Rathnayaka, H Zhan… - … Analysis with Boundary …, 2021 - Elsevier
The rheological properties of emerging novel complex fluids are usually governed by
multiple variables, which is challenging for traditional parameterized rheological models in …

A coarse-grained multiscale model to simulate morphological changes of food-plant tissues undergoing drying

W Wijerathne, CM Rathnayaka, HCP Karunasena… - Soft matter, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Numerical modelling has emerged as a powerful and effective tool to study various dynamic
behaviours of biological matter. Such numerical modelling tools have contributed to the …

In Silico Prediction of Food Properties: A Multiscale Perspective

O Vitrac, PM Nguyen, M Hayert - Frontiers in Chemical Engineering, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Several open software packages have popularized modeling and simulation strategies at
the food product scale. Food processing and key digestion steps can be described in 3D …

A three-dimensional (3-D) meshfree-based computational model to investigate stress-strain-time relationships of plant cells during drying

CM Rathnayaka, HCP Karunasena, W Wijerathne… - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
A better understanding of plant cell micromechanics would enhance the current opinion on
“how things are happening” inside a plant cell, enabling more detailed insights into plant …

[HTML][HTML] A 3-D coupled Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics and Coarse-Grained model to simulate drying mechanisms of small cell aggregates

CM Rathnayaka, HCP Karunasena… - Applied Mathematical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Recently, meshfree-based computational modelling approaches have become popular in
modelling biological phenomena due to their superior ability to simulate large deformations …