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The coupled and highly non-linear nature of the transport equations that govern the drying process highlights the applicability of numerical simulation in this field. This work is devoted to presenting the latest version of TransPore: a unique 3-D drying model that is able to deal with the heat and mass transfer in porous media. The set of equations used in the present work is among the more comprehensive physical descriptions for the drying of a porous medium modelled at the macroscopic scale. Several simulation results are presented that depict the new possibilities offered by such a tool. In particular, the effect of the number of exchange faces is studied both for an isotropic medium (a cube of light concrete) and for an anisotropic medium (a board of wood) where the anisotropy ratios and geometrical factors are large. These simulations prove that only three spatial dimensions are able to capture the effect of the …