The use of cellular automata in modeling the processes of wood drying in a stack

Abstract

In this work, we investigated the possibilities of using a model of cellular automata in solving the problem of heat and moisture transfer in a periodic wood drying chamber. Thus, in this work are investigating the processes of heat and moisture transfer between the wood and its drying agent. Studies are carried out by using CAD model of stack of dried wood. To use cellular automata, it is proposed to present the CAD model as an array of cubes, each of which has six faces (cells). In this work also proposes to use the different research zones, each of which allows us to calculate the values of temperature and moisture content in different places of the CAD model. In particular, these zones can be placed inside the wood, on its boundary or in the agent of its drying. The proposed cell-automata model contains local relationships between cells that describe their general behavior. In addition to describing the general behavior of cells, the model provides the possibility of setting the physical characteristics of the material. This allows us to approximate processes and determine new values of the physical characteristics of the material, including temperature and moisture content. The proposed algorithm for the use of cellular automata makes it possible to obtain a reliable result unnecessarily to conduct complex and expensive practical experiments. To speed up the calculation process, propose to use multilayered, which consists in obtaining numerical values of the physical characteristics of the material from several adjacent cells, which are located in the same direction of interaction. The work also provides graphs of changes in temperature and relative humidity of the wood drying agent. In this work is also given graphs of changes in temperature and moisture content of wood inside and on its boundary. To check the adequacy and reliability, all results are compared with the results of another experiment. To check the adequacy and reliability, we compared the obtained results with the results of another experiment. For this comparison in work it is calculated the relative error between the temperature and moisture content values of both experiments. The value of this relative error makes it possible to determine the prospects for the use of cellular automata in the simulation of heat and moisture transfer processes in wood drying chambers. Keywords: сellular automata; CAD model; algorithm of work; transition rules; wood drying chamber.