Analysis of water migration characteristics of core removal corn

To reduce energy consumption and drying time in corn drying, the conventional storage form of corn was taken as the research object. A corn model was established in SolidWorks, and computational fluid dynamics simulations were conducted using Fluent to analyze water loss during the drying process. By changing the overall structure of corn, the drying performance of corn in the coreless state and the conventional state were compared under the same temperature and wind speed conditions. The results show that under the same working conditions, the moisture content of coreless corn grains decreases to 12%~14%, meeting the standard for high-quality seed storage. The overall drying efficiency is improved by approximately 37.4%, while ensuring the integrity of corn seeds and achieving a higher germination rate.