Numerical determination of pressure‐dependent effective thermal conductivity in Berea sandstone

Effective thermal conductivity of composite: Numerical and experimental study

In this paper, thermal properties of composites are investigated numerically and experimentally. In the numerical study, finiteelements method is used to modelize heat transfer and to calculate the Effective Thermal Conductivity (ETC) of the composite for three elementary cells, such as simple cubic (SC), body centered cubic (BCC) and face centered cubic (FCC). The effect of the filler concentr...

A Method for the Numerical Determination of Thermal Conductivity

Seismoelectric measurements on artifical porous media and Berea sandstone

Seismic to electromagnetic wave conversion has been proposed as a possible exploration method. We present laboratory measurements of the conversion of an acoustic wave into electric potential, which occurs at a fluid/porous-medium interface. The conversion is measured for artificial porous media and Berea sandstone. Recorded electric potentials are smaller for largegrain samples. We also show v...

Effective thermal conductivity in thermoelectric materials

Thermoelectric generators (TEGs) are solid state heat engines that generate electricity from a temperature gradient. Optimizing these devices for maximum power production can be difficult due to the many heat transport mechanisms occurring simultaneously within the TEG. In this paper, we develop a model for heat transport in thermoelectric materials in which an " effective thermal conductivity ...

The effective thermal conductivity of wire screen

A combined experimental and theoretical investigation was conducted to examine the thermal conductivity of layers of wire mesh screen. Employing a carefully controlled sintering process, layers of sintered wire screen were examined experimentally. The experimental results indicate that the effective thermal conductivity in the z-direction (i.e., normal to the plane of the wire screen layers) fo...