Breeding snow: An instrumented sample holder for simultaneous tomographic and thermal studies

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Pinzer, B ^a   Schneebeli, M ^a  

^a WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Metamorphism; Snow; Thermal conductivity; Tomography

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEAT FLUX; SNOW; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL GRADIENTS; THERMAL INSULATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALTERNATING TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; CALIBRATION MEASUREMENTS; EFFECTIVE CONDUCTIVITY; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; INTERNAL TEMPERATURE; METAMORPHISM; RECRYSTALLIZATION PROCESS; THERMAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 70350660917     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 13616501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/20/9/095705     Document Type: Article

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