Thermal diffusion of water vapour in porous materials: Fact or fiction?

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 54, Issue 7-8, 2011, Pages 1548-1562

  Janssen, Hans ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Fick's law; Soret effect; Thermal diffusion; Vapour diffusion; Vapour pressure

Indexed keywords

BUILDING SCIENCE; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION DRIVEN; DIFFUSION OF WATER; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; FICK'S LAW; IN-LINE; MOISTURE FLOW; MOISTURE TRANSFER; SORET EFFECTS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMAL TRANSPORT; VAPOUR DIFFUSION; VAPOUR PRESSURES;

MOISTURE CONTROL; ORGANIC POLYMERS; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; THERMAL DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; THERMAL GRADIENTS; THERMODYNAMICS; VAPOR PRESSURE;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 78751646101     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2010.11.034     Document Type: Article

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