The influence of wood specimen geometry on moisture movement during drying

Wood and Fiber Science

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 166-172

  Baronas, Romas ^c   Ivanauskas, Feliksas ^a,b   Sapagovas, Mifodijus ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

^c Inst of Mathematics and Informatics ^*

Author keywords

Diffusion; Modeling; Wood drying

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005149186     PISSN: 07356161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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