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An analytic model for the process of air drying of boards of impermeable wood was developed in the light of some new experimental results. The work includes a new and informative way of plotting the data, a formula for the drying time and a derivation for the diffusion coefficient function within the wood. It was found necessary to take into account the aspect ratio of the board, and that the correction term for evaporative cooling was also significant. The notion of impermeability implies that there is no movement of cell lumen water under the influence of capillary pressure.
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Hunter, A. An analytic model for air drying of impermeable wood. Wood Science and Technology 34, 481–492 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002260000064
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002260000064