Combined analytical and phonon-tracking approaches to model thermal conductivity of etched and annealed nanoporous silicon

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Monte Carlo simulation of cross-plane thermal conductivity of nanostructured porous silicon films

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Thermal conductivity across nanostructured porous silicon films

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Radiative properties of densely packed spheres in semitransparent media: A new geometric optics approach

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Radiative Transfer in Dispersed Media: Comparison Between Homogeneous Phase and Multiphase Approaches

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Combined analytical and phonon-tracking approaches to model thermal conductivity of etched and annealed nanoporous silicon

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Monte Carlo Simulation of Phonon Transport in Nanoporous Silicon

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Ablative degradation of cryogenic thermal protection and fuel boil-off: Improvement of using graded density insulators

International audienceA simple modeling of the heat transfer through insulating bilayers of cryogenic reservoir subjected to surrounding environment or aerothermal flux is presented. The model permits to determine the instantaneous evolution of maximum fuel temperatures and the boil-off rate as well as the possible insulation ablation. To get a realistic estimation of the maximum fuel temperature and boil-off loss, the good knowledge of the internal convection coefficient, taking into account the possible fuel ebullition, is indispensable. The aerothermal flux provokes the insulation degradation and its ablation. Because of the ablation, the reservoir becomes less and less thermally protected, which may cause an important fuel boil-off. Compared to classical insulations with uniform density, those with spatially graded densities appear as potential insulations permitting to meet both light-weight and low boil-off requirements. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved