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Borys Basok1, Borys Davydenko1, Anatoliy M Pavlenko2
1Head of the Department of Thermophysical Basics of Energy-Saving Technologies, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 03057 Kyiv, Ukraine.
Abstract:
The article presents the modeling of the dynamics of the vapor-gas mixture and heat and mass transfer (sorption-desorption) in the capillary structure of the porous medium. This approach is underpinned by the fact that the porous structure is represented by a system of linear microchannels oriented along the axes of a three-dimensional coordinate system. The equivalent diameter of these channels corresponds to the average pore diameter, and the ratio of the total pore volume to the volume of the entire porous material corresponds to its porosity. The entire channel area is modeled by a set of cubic elements with a certain humidity, moisture content, pressure and temperature. A simulation is carried out taking into account the difference in temperatures of each of the phases: solid, liquid and gas.
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