ANALYSIS OF THE THERMOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS OF MOIST WOOD PARTICLE MATERIAL IN A COUPLED HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER PROCESS OF FREEZING BY USING FINITE ELEMENT METHOD

he coupled heat and moisture transfer in a freezing process of wood particle mate-rial was mathematically modeled in the paper.The models were Interactively solved by using thenumerical method(the finite element method and the finite difference method).By matching thetheoretical calculation to an experiment,he nonlinear problem was analyzed and the variablethermophysical parameters concerned was evaluated.The analysis procedure and the evaluation ofthe parameters were presented in detail.The result of the study showed that by using the method asdescribed in the paper,it was possible to determine the variable(with respect to temperature,mois-ture content and freezing state)thermophysical parameters which were unknown or difficult tomeasure as long as the governing equations for a considered process were available.The methodcan signifieantly reduces the experiment efforts for determining thermophysical parameters whichare very complicated to measure.The determined variable of the effective heat conductivi