Prediction of thermal contact conductance in vacuum by statistical mechanics

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 51-57

  Leung, M ^a   Hsieh, C K ^a   Goswami, D Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conduction; Direct Contact Heat Transfer; Modeling and Scaling

Indexed keywords

INTERFACES (MATERIALS); INTERFACIAL ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

BOLTZMANN STATISTICAL MODELS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTIONS; THERMAL CONTACT CONDUCTANCE;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS;

CONDUCTION; HEAT TRANSFER; VACUUM;

EID: 0242298522     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2830064     Document Type: Article

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