Category: Transient Plane Source
Author(s): Hideaki Nagai, Martin Castillo, Mikito Mamiya, Takeshi Okutani
Keywords: measuring thermal conductivity of molten metals, microgravity, molten metals, thermal conductivity
Abstract: The authors measured the thermal conductivity of a couple molten metals, namely bismuth and tin. This was accomplished by using a molybdenum sensor placed in between two aluminum nitride plates (to protect the molybdenum sensor from the high temperature of the molten metals. The thermal conductivities were measured during a short-duration of microgravity (to look into the thermal convection effect happening during the measurement) as well as in regular gravity. The results were found to be 'approximately equal.'
Reference: Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 45, 1 (2006) 6455
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.45.6455