Rendering the transient hot wire experimental method for thermal conductivity estimation to two-phase systems-theoretical leading order results

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 132, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1-7

  Vadasz, Peter ^a  

^a Center for Materials Interfaces in Research and Applications   (United States)

Author keywords

Effective thermal conductivity; Nanofluids; Porous media; Transient hot wire; Two phase heat conduction

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FORMULAS; ANALYTICAL FORMULATION; COMPOSITE SYSTEMS; EFFECTIVE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL METHODS; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; HOMOGENEOUS FLUIDS; LEADING ORDERS; LINE HEAT SOURCES; NANOFLUIDS; POROUS MEDIA; ROBUST TECHNIQUE; SHORT TIME SCALE; SINGLE-PHASE SYSTEMS; THEORETICAL BASIS; TRANSIENT HOT WIRE; TRANSIENT HOT WIRE METHOD; TWO PHASE SYSTEMS;

HEAT CONDUCTION; POROUS MATERIALS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; THERMOANALYSIS; WIRE;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF LIQUIDS;

EID: 77955298127     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4001314     Document Type: Article

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