Avramidis, Stavros

Research Areas:

• Wood-water relations and sorption thermodynamics.
• Fluid flow, heat transfer, and molecular diffusion in wood.
• Modeling steady-state and dynamic non-isothermal diffusion in wood.
• Application of fractals and artificial neural networks to modeling wood physical properties.
• Molecular modeling of the wood nano-pore network in the cell wall.
• Modeling drying stresses in wood and their effect on timber quality.
• Industrial wood kiln drying optimization and development of new drying strategies.
• Radio frequency vacuum (RFV) heating and drying of wood and wood products.
• Dielectric wood phytosanitation.
• Wood thermal modification.