Solution to the 1-D unsteady heat conduction equation with internal Joule heat generation for thermoelectric devices

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 177-184

  Montecucco, A ^a   Buckle, J R ^a   Knox, A R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heat conduction; Heat generation; Heat transfer; Joule heating; Peltier; Seebeck; Thermoelectric; Transient solution

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; COLD SIDE; ELECTRICAL TRANSIENTS; INPUT/OUTPUT; INTERNAL HEAT GENERATION; ONE-DIMENSIONAL HEAT; PELTIER; PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; SEEBECK; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMAL MASS; THERMAL TRANSIENTS; THERMOELECTRIC; THERMOELECTRIC APPLICATION; THERMOELECTRIC DEVICES; TIME-VARYING TEMPERATURES; TRANSIENT SOLUTION; TRANSIENT SOLUTIONS; UNSTEADY HEAT CONDUCTION;

EQUIPMENT; HEAT CONDUCTION; HEAT GENERATION; HEAT TRANSFER; JOULE HEATING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATLAB; PELTIER EFFECT; POWER ELECTRONICS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; THERMAL GRADIENTS; TRANSIENTS;

POWER QUALITY;

EID: 81855198848     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2011.10.026     Document Type: Article

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