MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF THE THERMODESTRUCTION
OF WORN TIRES IN OVERHEATED STEAM

V. A. Babenko, V. A. Zhdanok,
G. I. Zhuravskii, and N. V. Pavlyukevich

UDC 536.248.2

A mathematical model of the heat and mass transfer in 
the process of thermolysis of rubber-technical articles in overheated 
steam is proposed.

Keywords: overheated steam, thermodestruction, tires, mathematical model,
equations of interpenetrating continua. 

A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National 
Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 15 P. Brovka Str., Minsk, 220072, 
Belarus; email: pnv@hmti.ac.by. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii 
Zhurnal, Vol. 82, No. 1, pp. 114-126, January-February, 2009. 
Original article submitted September 19, 2008.