Tomography-based determination of the effective thermal conductivity of fluid-saturated reticulate porous ceramics

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Petrasch, Jörg ^a   Schrader, Birte ^a   Wyss, Peter ^b   Steinfeld, Aldo ^a,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computer tomography; Conduction heat transfer; Effective thermal conductivity; Multiscale; Pore scale; Reticulate porous ceramics

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; HEAT CONDUCTION; POROUS MATERIALS;

PORE-LEVEL GEOMETRY; RETICULATE POROUS CERAMICS;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

CERAMIC MATERIALS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; HEAT CONDUCTION; POROUS MATERIALS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 42649118095     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2804932     Document Type: Article

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