Thermal Conductivity 23 [Hardcover]

This book contains keynote lectures and 54 technical papers, presented at the 23rd International Thermal Conductivity Conference, on various topics, including techniques, coatings and films, theory, composites, fluids, metals, ceramics, and organics, related to thermal conductivity.Keynote Lectures 1. Physical Properties are Controlled by Structures 2. Improved Correlations for the Thermal Conductivity of Propane and n-Butane Session 1: Techniques 3. Automatic Non-Destructive Brake Tester for Thermal DifFusivity/Conductivity of Aircraft Brake Disks 4. Improved Axial Cut-Bar Apparatus 5. Design of a Subminiature Guarded Hot Plate Apparatus 6. Specific Heat Measurements with the Hot Disk Thermal Constants Analyser 7. Optimization of the Thermal Conductivity Measurement by Modulated DSC 8. Estimation of a Space-Varying Heat Transfer Coefficient or Interface Resistance by Inverse Conduction 9. Kalman Filtering Applied to Thermal Conductivity Estimation in Pulse Experiments 10. Using the Discrete Fourier Transform in Thermal Diffusivity Measurement 11. Parameter Estimation Method for Flash Thermal Diffusivity with Two Different Heat Transfer Coefficients 12. Multiple Station Thermal Diffusivity Instrument Session 2: Coatings and Films 13. Theoretical Aspects of the Thermal Conductivity in Thin Films 14. Thermal Conductivity of Thin Dielectric Films 15. Measurement of the Thermal Diffusivity of Diamond with a Modified Angstrom Method 16. An Improved Dynamical Method for Thermal Conductivity and Specific Heat Measurements of Thin Films in the 100 nm-Range 17. Phonon Knudsen Flow in GaAs/AlAs Superlattices 18. Measurement of Thermal Properties of Thin Films Using Infrared Thermography 19. Laser-Assisted AC Measurement of Thin-Film Thermal Diffusivity with Different Laser Beam Configurations Session 3: Theory 20. Thermal Conductivity of Zirconia 21. A Rigid-Ion Lattice Dynamical Model for Calculating Group Velocities in Simple, Body-Centered, and Face-Centered Cubic Crystall#p