The surface emission coefficient of wood

Wood and Fiber Science

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 178-185

  Siau, John F ^a,c   Avramidis, Stavros ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Drying; Heat convection; Laminar boundary layer; Lewis relation; Mass convection; Newman's solution; Non fickian diffusion; Surface resistance; Turbulent boundary layer

Indexed keywords

DRYING; MASS TRANSFER; SURFACES;

WOOD;

EID: 0030376430     PISSN: 07356161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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