International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 26 (2001), Issue 12, Pages 713-729
doi:10.1155/S0161171201020166
Hot-pressing process modeling for medium density fiberboard (MDF)
CIMEC-INTEC, Guemes 3450, Santa Fe 3000, Argentina
Received 13 December 2000; Revised 14 June 2001
Copyright © 2001 Norberto Nigro and Mario Storti. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
We present a numerical solution for the mathematical modeling of the hot-pressing process applied to medium density fiberboard. The model is based on the work of Humphrey (1982), Humphrey and Bolton (1989), and Carvalho and Costa (1998) with some modifications and extensions in order to take into account mainly the convective effects on the phase change term and also a conservative numerical treatment of the resulting system of
partial differential equations.