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Many times, the thermal properties of a product are determined but their uncertainties (and, mainly, the covariance matrix) are not provided. Thus, in the simulations, it is not possible to establish a confidence band for a transient state described through the values obtained for these properties. In this article, a model was proposed to determine thermal diffusivity and convective heat transfer coefficient, providing the above-mentioned lack of information, for a product with spherical geometry during its cooling. The proposed model involved: 1) an experimental data set of the cooling kinetics in a point within the product; 2) a one-dimensional numerical solution of the heat conduction equation; 3) an optimizer based on the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm to determine the thermal properties, their uncertainties, and the covariance between the parameters. Model was applied for determining thermal properties of strawberries, using an equivalent sphere to represent the geometry of the product, and the obtained results were compatible with the literature results.

Calculation of the Thermal Properties (and Their Uncertainties) of Strawberry During Its Cooling Under Natural Convection