A Moving Boundary Model for Isothermal Drying and Shrinkage of Chayote Discoid Samples: Comparison between the Fully Analytical and the Shortcut Numerical Approaches

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(a) obtained with the linear approximation , i.e., (equation (13)) and with the nonlinear model equation (27) for chayote discoid samples. (b) Comparison between experimental data for vs. for chayote discoid samples and the 1-d moving boundary model predictions obtained with the two different models for shown in (a). For both figures, the thickness calibration curve adopted is (equation (15)) and .

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