The equilibrium moisture content in wood depends not only on the current relative humidity in ambient air, but also on the history of relative humidity variations...
Keywords: Hysteresis, independent domain model, moisture content, numerical method, Sorption
03/2007 | Holzforschung, Walter de GruyterIn this first part of our two-part article, we present some theoretical background along with descriptions of some numerical techniques for solving a particular semilinear elliptic eigenproblem of Lane-Emden type on a triangular domain without any lines of symmetry...
Keywords: numerical method, Lane, Emden, semilinear, elliptic, eigenproblem, operator splitting, finite element, arclength continuation, least-squares, control
10/2007 | Journal of Numerical Mathematics, Walter de GruyterIn this second part of our two-part article, we present and discuss the corresponding numerical results from implementations of the numerical algorithms described in the first part...
Keywords: numerical method, Lane, Emden, semilinear, elliptic, eigenproblem, operator splitting, finite element, arclength continuation, least-squares, control
11/2007 | Journal of Numerical Mathematics, Walter de Gruyter