TY - JOUR TI - HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER DURING CONTACT DRYING OF A SHEET OF MOIST MATERIAL AU - Antonijević Dragi Lj. JN - Thermal Science PY - 1999 VL - 3 IS - 1 SP - 57 EP - 70 PT - Article AB - Proposed is a model for heat and mass transfer during drying of a sheet of moist material placed on the heating surface of certain temperature while over the opposite free surface of the sheet the air of defined parameters is blown. All thermophysical and transport properties of the dried material are considered to be fully dependent on temperature and moisture content. The model is solved numerically by use of finite difference explicit numerical scheme. The results of temperature and moisture distributions inside the layer of the material obtained by the model with variable coefficients are compared, for the same values of process parameters, to the results obtained through simultaneous solving of the similar mathematical model with constant thermophysical coefficients in governing equations, as well as with the results acquired experimentally.