Development software for study the wood drying chamber by using a three-dimensional mathematical model based on cellular automata

The paper describes the study of the drying processes of capillary-porous materials by using the CAD model of wood drying chamber. The study involves the determination of temperature and humidity in the stack of dried wood by using cellular automata. To accomplish this task, we developed a three-dimensional mathematical model of heat transfer of wood in the drying process. In order to use this mathematical model in practice, we described the ways of representing the CAD model in the form of multidimensional arrays whose elements are 3D cubes, as well as special schemes of the relation between the edges of these 3D cubes. This representation allows us to make the most effective use of the developed mathematical model, which is described by an interconnected system of partial differential equations in time derivatives and spatial coordinates. Also in this paper, the results of the calculations in the form of graphs of change in the temperature and humidity of the stack of dried wood according to time iterations are shown. In order to take simpler results, we developed a radial basis artificial neural network.