Document Type
Article
Date
1-1-1988
Keywords
numerical analysis, manybody problem, thermal conductivity, composite materials, circular configuration, cylinders, suspensions, randomness
Disciplines
Chemical Engineering
Description/Abstract
A numerical method is developed that takes into account the many particle interactions in a rigorous manner to determine the effective thermal conductivity of Km of a composite medium consisting of parallel circular cylinders of thermal conductivity ak suspended in a matrix of conductivity k. Numerical results for Km are presented for a wide rane of a and o, the area fraction of the cylinders, after averaging over several computer-generated random arrays of cylinders. The results obtained via this exact method are compared with those of various approximate analystical methods to assess their utility in predicting Km.
Recommended Citation
Sangani, Ashok S. and Yao, C., "Transport Processes in Random Arrays of Cylinders. I. Thermal Conduction" (1988). Biomedical and Chemical Engineering - All Scholarship. 35.
https://surface.syr.edu/bce/35
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Copyright Physics of Fluids 1988. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and Physics of Fluids. The article may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.866595