Abstract
In this study, a numcrical simulation on the freezing and thawing processes is developed to evaluate the solution effects on the quality of frozen-fish tissues. We use a simulation model containing muscle fibers to express the micro-scale heat and mass transport phenomena inside the tissues. The calculation can show the temperature increase due to the release of latent heat at the time estimated by the IIF theory, and the cell shrinkage behavior caused by the vapor pressure difference in the unfrozen-cell region is presented. In the thawing process, we cannot confirm the re-crystallization from the present calculation.
