EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL STUDY OF MICROWAVE-POWER DISTRIBUTIONS IN A MICROWAVE-HEATING APPLICATOR

This paper presents the experimental and numerical results of dissipated microwave power distribution in a microwave heating applicator with a water load Power density profiles predicted using a finite element model developed previously by the author, was shown to agree well with experimental measurements. Because of the well defined boundary conditions of the experimental applicator, the experimental results can be used for verifying a wide range of numerical models.