TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .................................................................................................. ii

TABLE OF CONTENTS..................................................................................................... iii
LIST OF FIGURES ............................................................................................................ iv
LIST OF TABLES............................................................................................................... iv
ABSTRACT...........................................................................................................................v
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION AND MOTIVATION ....................................................... 1
1.1 PROBLEM STATEMENT ................................................................................... 2
1.2 RESEARCH OBJECTIVE ................................................................................... 2
1.3 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK ........................................................................ 3
1.4 SIGNIFICANT OF STUDY ................................................................................. 3
1.5 SCOPE OF STUDY............................................................................................. 3
CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW ............................................................................... 4
CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY ................................................................... 6
3.1 MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION OF ONE-DIMENSIONAL MOISTURE
MODELS ...................................................................................................................... 7
3.1.1 EQUILIBRIUM BOUNDARY CONDITION .............................................. 9
3.1.2 CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY SOLUTION ............................................... 11
3.2 NUMERICAL SOLUTION ................................................................................ 12
3.2.1 FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD.............................................................. 12
3.2.2 EQUILIBRIUM BAOUNDARY CONDITION .............................................. 14
3.2.3 CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY CONDITION ............................................. 17
CHAPTER 4: RESULT AND DISCUSSIONS ................................................................... 19
4.1 OVERVIEW ....................................................................................................... 19
4.2 CASE STUDY 1: EQUILIBRIUM BOUNDARY CONDITION..................... 19
4.3 CASE STUDY 2: CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY CONDITION ..................... 21
4.4 MODEL COMPARISON ................................................................................... 23
CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ........................................ 27
REFERENCES .................................................................................................................. 27

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