Evaluation of hydrothermal treatment on physicochemical properties and re-adsorption behaviors of lignite

Y Xu, J Wang, G Zhang, X Zhang, X Qin, Y Zhang - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Lignite is a kind of low-rank coal with abundant reserves and low price in China, but the high
moisture content and low calorific value greatly restrict the large-scale utilization of it …

Three-dimensional simulation of heat and moisture transfer in wood

R Younsi, D Kocaefe, Y Kocaefe - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2006 - Elsevier
This paper deals with the numerical simulation of 3D heat and moisture transfer in wood.
The mathematical model is based on a set of coupled, heat and mass transfer equations …

Computational modelling of heat and mass transfer during the high-temperature heat treatment of wood

R Younsi, D Kocaefe, S Poncsak, Y Kocaefe - Applied thermal engineering, 2007 - Elsevier
During the heat treatment process, the heat and mass transfer takes place between the solid
and the drying medium, and the moisture evaporation occurs within the solid due to the …

An artificial compressibility CBS method for modelling heat transfer and fluid flow in heterogeneous porous materials

AG Malan, RW Lewis - International Journal for Numerical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This work is concerned with the development of an artificial compressibility version of the
characteristic‐based split (CBS) method proposed by Zienkiewicz and Codina (Int. J. Numer …

Modeling of heat and mass transfer during high temperature treatment of aspen

D Kocaefe, R Younsi, B Chaudry, Y Kocaefe - Wood Science and …, 2006 - Springer
A three-dimensional and unsteady-state mathematical model, which accounts for
simultaneous heat and mass transfer taking place during the high temperature treatment of …

An accelerated, fully-coupled, parallel 3D hybrid finite-volume fluid–structure interaction scheme

AG Malan, OF Oxtoby - Computer methods in applied mechanics and …, 2013 - Elsevier
In this paper we propose a fast, parallel 3D, fully-coupled partitioned hybrid-unstructured
finite volume fluid–structure-interaction (FSI) scheme. Spatial discretisation is effected via a …

Continuum thermodynamic modeling of drying capillary particulate materials via an edge-based algorithm

RW Lewis, AG Malan - Computer methods in applied mechanics and …, 2005 - Elsevier
The numerical modeling of the coupled heat and mass transfer processes prevalent in
drying non-hygroscopic and hygroscopic capillary particulate materials is dealt with. A set of …

A control volume‐based finite element method for plane micropolar elasticity

MA Wheel - International Journal for numerical methods in …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
This paper describes the development of a numerical procedure for predicting deformations
and stresses in a loaded two‐dimensional membrane exhibiting micropolar or Cosserat …

[HTML][HTML] An enhanced finite volume method to model 2D linear elastic structures

R Suliman, OF Oxtoby, AG Malan, S Kok - Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper details the evaluation and enhancement of the vertex-centred finite volume
method for the purpose of modelling linear elastic structures undergoing bending. A matrix …

A matrix-free, implicit, incompressible fractional-step algorithm for fluid–structure interaction applications

OF Oxtoby, AG Malan - Journal of Computational Physics, 2012 - Elsevier
In this paper we detail a fast, fully-coupled, partitioned fluid–structure interaction (FSI)
scheme. For the incompressible fluid, new fractional-step algorithms are proposed which …