I would like to correspond thermal conductivity of different human tissues to their location from the skin surface. I need help on articles or textbooks where where I can find the distances of tissues (like lungs, spleen, muscle, liver, heart, etc) from any specific point on the surface of the skin. For example, if muscle is 2.5mm (the information I seek) from the skin surface, k(x = 2.5) = 0.5; then it could be said that the thermal conductivity of the tissue (muscle) which is 2.5mm from a reference point on the skin surface is 2.5W/m/K.
Hi,
Don't you think that blood circulation in a living organism is more influent parameter in heat transfer than any pure conductivity assemblage.
If you agree with that, you must also give importance to the fact that blood flow is a fractal phenomenon. This is what mimics the technology of microchannels.
Try. Biomechanics: Mechanical Properties of Living Tissues. Of Y C Fung
I think that you are considering the human body as an homogeneous body where the heat transfer is made by conduction. The Different parts of the body have different values of thermal conductivity (whole brain-0.527 W/(Km) ; heart -0.493-0.585 W/(Km). Between the skin and the different parts of the body you can have different tissues and blood circulating. In the blood circulation you must consider heat transfer by convection.
The thermal conductivity is a property of the material. It does not depend on the location of it.
In order to calculate the thermal conductivity you have determine the path of the heat to the target (deep tissue) and conductivity of different parts during in the path , thicknesses, cross section areas of different parts and heat gain/ heat loss by convection due blood circulations. It is not a simple calculation
Thanks Prof. Fryad. This is exactly what i need. I would not mind any guidance (and articles) from you in this direction. I dont mind complex calculations at all. Thanks
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