to experimental data. A simple mechanistic approach is implemented to model product shrinkage, based on the assumption of volume conservation. A significant contribution of the present work is the estimation of the heat and mass transfer coefficients for the present flow configuration, which is scarcely considered in the literature. The convective heat transfer coefficient is obtained from steady-state CFD calculations of the turbulent flow field around the slice, incorporating the SST-k−ω turbulence model. A new correlation for the heat transfer coefficient, as a function of Prandtl and Reynolds numbers is proposed for flow parallel to the axis of a cylindrical slice while the convective mass transfer coefficient is then derived using the heat and mass transfer analogy. New experimental data including the time variation of slice dimensions are presented. Experiments are performed in a laboratory scale convective dryer