Rather than completely burning up when a spacecraft reenters Earth's atmosphere, its heat shield's outer surface is ...

Thermal Diffusion: The process by which temperature gradients induce the movement of particles within a fluid mixture. Soret Effect: The phenomenon where a temperature gradient causes a spatial ...

Bing Tong, Zhiqiu Gao, Robert Horton, Linlin Wang, Soil Apparent Thermal Diffusivity Estimated by Conduction and by Conduction–Convection Heat Transfer Models, Journal of Hydrometeorology, Vol. 18, No ...

The laser flash diffusivity method is one of several methods to measure the ability of a material to diffuse heat. This is useful when there is a need to determine how a material will behave in ...

Measurements have been made of the separation produced by thermal diffusion in all the binary mixtures of the inert gases (except Kr-X and Rn mixtures) at temperatures ranging from -180 to 400 ° C.

Mellen Oxidation and Diffusion Furnace Two Mellen clamshell furnaces are situated in room 428. These furnaces are designated for the growth of silicon oxide and thermal diffusion of n and p type ...

Thermal diffusivity is the rate of heat conduction through a material and assumes that the material is homogeneous and isotropic, and the heat flow is one-dimensional and there is no heat loss. The ...

Directional thermal diffusion and insulation of in-plane anisotropic carbon fiber/CNF nanocomposite films. In a new study, scientists from Japan designed flexible thermal diffusion films made of ...

Due to the radiative thermal conductivity of the mineral olivine, only oceanic plates over 60 million years old and subducting at more than 10 centimeters per year remain sufficiently cold to ...

The Discovery Laser Flash DLF 1600 from TA Instruments is an advanced freestanding instrument for the measurements of thermal diffusivity and specific heat capacity of materials from room temperature ...