PROBLEM OF DRYING OF A LAYER
OF COMBUSTIBLE FOREST MATERIALS
A. M. Grishin, A. N. Golovanov,
L. Yu. Kataeva, and E. L. Loboda

UDC 536.24

Physical and mathematical modeling of drying of a 
layer of combustible forest materials (CFMs) is considered in a conjugate 
formulation within the framework of which the equations of a binary 
boundary layer and the equations of heat and mass transfer in a layer 
of combustible forest materials are solved. Boundary conditions for 
the laws of conservation of mass and energy are written on the interface 
of media. It is found experimentally and theoretically that the velocities 
of the flow and radiation strongly affect the time of drying of a 
layer of combustible forest materials, whereas the effect of the angle 
of inclination (slope) between the underlying surface and the horizontal 
plane is insignificant.

Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia; email: fire@fire.tsu.tomsk.su. 
Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 74, No. 4, pp. 
58-64, July-August, 2001. Original article submitted September 11, 2000; 
revision submitted February 9, 2001.

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