A heterogeneous wood drying computational model that accounts for material property variation across growth rings

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 86, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 117-131

  Perre P ^a   Turner, I W ^b  

^a Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Technologies et Industries du Bois   (France)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anisotropic; Control volume finite element method; Flux limiting; Globally convergent Newton method; Heterogeneous

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; GROWTH (MATERIALS); MASS TRANSFER; MOISTURE; THERMAL EFFECTS; WOOD;

DRYING KINETICS;

DRYING;

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; DRYING; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LIQUID-SOLID SEPARATION; WOOD;

EID: 0037185916     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1385-8947(01)00270-4     Document Type: Article

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