Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
658087 International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 2014 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

A novel effective medium theory was proposed to model the thermal conductivity of porous materials. In this theory, phases (or components) are treated as small spheres dispersing into an assumed uniform medium with the thermal conductivity km. A simple algebraic expression for the thermal conductivity based on this theory was derived, in which each has a distinct physical basis. The expression can unify five basic structural models (Series, Parallel, two forms of Maxwell–Eucken, effective medium theory) through variations of km. Furthermore, the feasibility of the model was evaluated using the experimental data from previous literatures and those calculated by this model.

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