Drying lumber in kilns: A Methodology for stochastic analysis using markov modelling

Drying Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 765-790

  Cronin, K ^a   Norton, B ^b   Taylor, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Batch drying; Discretization; Moisture content distribution; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; KILNS; LUMBER; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE;

BATCH DRYING; DISCRETIZATION; MOISTURE CONTENT DISTRIBUTION;

DRYING;

DRYING; MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL; WOOD;

EID: 0031104425     PISSN: 07373937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07373939708917261     Document Type: Article

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