Effective thermal conductivity

An inverse method for determining the in-plane effective thermal conductivity of porous thermoplastics was implemented by coupling infrared thermography experiments and numerical simulation of heat transfer in straight fins having temperature-dependent convective heat transfer coefficient. The microstructure heterogeneity of extruded polyethylene foam, in which pores are filled with air with different levels of open and closed porosity, was taken into account. The obtained effective thermal conductivity values were compared with previous results obtained using a numerical solution based on periodic homogenization techniques (NSHT) and the transient plane source technique (TPS) to verify the accuracy of the proposed method. The results show that the suggested method is in good agreement with both NSHT and TPS. Moreover, it is also appropriate for structural materials such as unidirectional fiber-reinforced plastic composites, where heat transfer is very different according to the fib...

Effective thermal conductivity (ETC), as a necessary parameter in the thermal properties of rock, is affected by the pore structure and the thermal conduction conditions. To evaluate the effect of fractures and saturated fluids on sandstone’s thermal conductivity, we simulated thermal conduction along three orthogonal (X, Y, and Z) directions under air- and water-saturated conditions on reconstructed digital rocks with different fractures. The results show that the temperature distribution is separated by the fracture. The significant difference between the thermal conductivities of solid and fluid is the primary factor influencing the temperature distribution, and the thermal conduction mainly depends on the solid phase. A nonlinear reduction of ETC is observed with increasing fracture length and angle. Only when the values of the fracture length and angle are large, a negative effect of fracture aperture on the ETC is apparent. Based on the partial least squares (PLS) regression m...

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Temperature dependences (temperature range T = 0.5-300 K) of resistivity in the plane of layers and in the direction perpendicular to the layers, and the galvanomagnetic effects in undoped and doped Bi 2 Te 3 single crystals are studied (magnetic field H < 80 kOe, T = 0.5-4.2 K). It is shown that upon doping of Bi 2 Te 3 with the Group III atoms (In and B), conductivity anisotropy increases mainly due to an increase in resistivity in the direction perpendicular to the layers. This fact makes it possible to assume that the atoms of these impurities are incorporated mainly into the van der Waal gaps between the layers upon doping. It is also revealed that, upon doping of Bi 2 Te 3 with In and B, the temperature dependence of conductivity becomes weaker, which indicates an increase in the role of scattering by defects in scattering mechanisms. The concentrations and mobilities of charge carriers, values of the Hall factor conditioned by the anisotropy of effective masses and orientation of ellipsoids with respect to crystallographic axes, areas of the extreme section of the Fermi surface by the plane perpendicular to the direction of the magnetic field, and the Fermi energy are evaluated.

The performance of a spray liquid‐liquid extraction column at two mass‐transfer directions was experimentally studied in the presence of silica nanoparticles. Toluene‐based nanofluid drops containing 0.0005–0.01 vol % silica nanoparticles were dispersed in aqueous phase and acetic acid (AA) transfer between phases was investigated. The experiments were performed at fixed volumetric flow rates of dispersed and continuous phases. Maximum enhancement of 47.4% and 107.5% in overall mass‐transfer coefficient, respectively, for mass‐transfer direction of dispersed to continuous phase and vice versa were achieved for drops with 0.001 vol % silica nanoparticles. These enhancements can be referred to Brownian motion of nanoparticles and induced microconvection. The results showed that nanoparticles are more effective in augmenting AA transfer from continuous to dispersed phase. Probable reason is that smaller diameter and lower internal turbulence of drops in this transfer direction increase...