The isochoric thermal conductivity of solid C6H6 is described within a model in which the heat is transferred by phonons and above the phonon mobility edge by “diffusive” modes migrating randomly from site to site. The mobility edge ω0 is found from the condition, that the phonon mean-free path restricted by the examined mechanisms of scattering cannot become smaller than half the wavelength. T...

A thermal bridge is a part of the building envelope where the otherwise uniform thermal resistance is significantly changed by: • Full or partial penetration of the building envelope by materials with a different thermal conductivity and/or • A change in thickness of the structure and/or • A difference between internal and external areas, such as occur at wall-floor-ceiling junctions. INTRODUCT...

nanocomposite materials, including noble metal nanoparticles embedded in a dielectric host medium, are interesting because of their optical properties linked to surface plasmon resonance phenomena. for studding of nonlinear optical properties and/or energy transfer process, these materials may be excited by ultrashort pulse laser with a temporal width varying from some femtoseconds to some hund...

Vernacular building is considered as sustainable in energy consumption and environment and its thermal performance is more and more concerned by researchers. This paper investigates the thermal property of the vernacular building in Lhasa by theoretical analysis on the aspects of building form, envelope and materials etc. The values of thermal resistance and thermal capacity of the envelope are...

In this paper the authors propose and verify an approach to control heat flow in machine tool components. Thermal deformations are a main aspect that affects the accuracy of machining. Due to goals of energy efficiency, thermal basic loads should be reduced. This leads to inhomogeneous and time variant temperature profiles. To counteract these negative consequences, material with high melting e...

Continuously Heated Greenhouses: A production or retail greenhouse with a constantly maintained temperature of 50 degrees F or more during winter months. Such greenhouse must also have a maintenance attendant on duty at all times or an adequate temperature alarm system to provide warning in the event of a heating system failure. In addition, the greenhouse roof material must have a thermal resi...

he increasing amount of heat generated by electronic devices is making devices thermal design and ways to combat heat more and more important issues to deal with. Therefore, we have developed a system able to evaluate thermally conductive materials such as conductive adhesives. The measurement technology is based on the steady-state method, and can evaluate heat transfer characteristics of moun...

In this paper, the method of determining thermal contact resistance of wavy surfaces is discussed exactly. For determining the thermal contact resistance of real contacts, a new method has been presented. In this method, assuming a regular sinusoidal surface profile, the real contact area in terms of applied forces has been determined. Then thermal contact resistance has been calculated. Testin...

in this study, thermal performance of a cylindrical heat pipe is investigated numerically. three different types of water based nanofluids, namely (al2o3+water), (diamond+water) and (multi-wall carbon nano tube (mwcnt) +water) have been used. the influence of using the simple nanofluids and mwcnt nanofluid on the heat pipe characteristics such as liquid velocity, pressure profile, temperature p...