I know that with increasing temperature, thermal conductivity decreases. How does thermal diffusivity and specific heat capacity contribute to this. I need an explanation backed with references. Thanks
03 March 2021 8,272 1 View
In some materials, properties such as band gap, thermal conductivity differ along different crystallographic axes. What are the basics?
01 March 2021 1,923 3 View
Increased heat, drought and insect outbreaks, all associated to climate change, have increased wildfires. Decreasing water supplies, declined agricultural yields, health impacts in cities owing to...
01 March 2021 7,168 9 View
Should I mesh the solid domain ? or should I use wall thickness? or Shell conduction? for Heat Transfer between two fluids of a Heat Exchanger. what is recommended?
01 March 2021 9,785 3 View
I want to cool Natural Gas from 195 Kelvin to 138 Klevin in a heat exchanger by using liquid nitrogen as the coolant medium. When entering the heat exchanger, the liquid nitrogen will have a...
01 March 2021 6,450 5 View
I have been trying to simulate heat transfer problem in Comsol 5.5 for long time but it always throw an error stating: "Failed to find a solution. Maximum number of Newton iterations...
28 February 2021 8,626 3 View
Favourable conditions of base pressure, rate of deposition. Also, by which characterisation technique to be used to verify the thickness of the deposited film.
28 February 2021 3,640 3 View
Hi Guys. I'm a mechanical engineer and have a bit trouble, would be very glad if you could help me with my questions. I have a pressurized tank which contains Natural Gas at 200 Bar and 293...
26 February 2021 6,253 3 View
Hi all The question is related to TGA(Thermogravimetric analysis). Thermal degradation easily understood but why do samples weight decrease? altough just binding is broked, the weight of...
26 February 2021 1,100 5 View
Hi, my question is about the heating of thermal cycler machines and I hope some of you had experienced a similar thing previously. There are two thermal cycler machines in the lab(BioRad) and for...
26 February 2021 4,777 4 View