Predictive microbiology is nowadays one of the main tools to understand microbial interactions and to assess the quantitative risk in foods. Several models have been developed in order to predict microorganism growth. The ...

Predictive food microbiology is normally based on mathematical models to predict the growth, inactivation or probability of microorganism growth which can be applied to establish the shelf-life of food. At present the ...

Richards equation describes the infiltration and movement of water in porous media, such as soils. This equation, added to the complex constitutive equations which characterize the soil, produces a nonlinear system of ...