Affiliation:
1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, San Jose State University, One Washington Square, San Jose, CA 95192-0087
2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3123
Abstract
Junction thermal conductance is an important consideration in such applications as thermally induced stresses in supersonic and hypersonic flight vehicles, nuclear reactor cooling, electronics packaging, spacecraft thermal control, gas turbine and internal combustion engine cooling, and cryogenic liquid storage. A fundamental problem in analyzing and predicting junction thermal conductance is determining thermal contact conductance of nonflat rough metals. Workable models have been previously derived for the limiting idealized cases of flat, rough, and spherical smooth surfaces. However, until now no tractable models have been advanced for nonflat rough “engineering” surfaces which are much more commonly dealt with in practice. The present investigation details the synthesis of previously derived models for macroscopically nonuniform thermal contact conductance and contact of nonflat rough spheres into a thermomechanical model, which is presented in an analytical/graphical format. The present model agrees well with representative experimental conductance results from the literature for stainless steel 303 and 304 with widely varying nonflatness (2 to 200 μm) and roughness (0.1 to 10 μm).
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,Condensed Matter Physics,General Materials Science
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