Behind the Manufacturing of Industrial Clay Bricks: Drying Stage Predictions Using CFD

Table 5

Quantitative data of the numerical grids evaluated.

Grid	Number of elements	Number of nodes		Simulation time
M1	419,328	472,960	2.05353 × 10^–3	1 day 6 h 5 min 30,959 s
M2	169,940	198,120	2.77533 × 10^–3	11 h 58 min 9,130 s
M3	41,496	52,640	4.44253 × 10^–3	3 h 51 min 49,988 s

γ corresponds to the representative mesh size.