In this study, the optimum thickness of thermal insulation used to reduce heat gain and losses in buildings is investigated under dynamic thermal conditions by using the climatic conditions of Elazığ, Turkey. Numerical method based on an implicit finite difference procedure which has been previously validated is used to determine yearly cooling and heating transmission loads, yearly averaged ti...

A thermal diagnostic for evaluating the performance of refractory coatings under a variety of heat loads is demonstrated. Heat flow through refractory coatings of TiC exposed to the edge plasma of Microtor II was measured using coated copper samples instrumented with thermocouples. Using interior temperature data, the inverse heat conduction problem was solved numerically to obtain the surface ...

Dynamic models for the energy simulation of building-plant systems are becoming useful tools in the process of building design by defining operating conditions and finding appropriate control strategies. Therefore simple softwares able to correctly predict the thermal behaviour of rooms, and thus allowing to get comfort conditions and loads, are needed. In this paper a dynamic simulation model ...

In developing countries like Pakistan, the capacity shortage (CS) of electricity is a critical problem. The frequent natural gas (NG) outages compel consumers to use electricity to fulfill the thermal loads, which ends up as an increase in electrical load. In this scenario, the authors have proposed the concept of a combined heat & power (CHP) plant to be a better option for supplying both elec...

This paper focuses on the non-linear responses in thin cylindrical structures subjected to combined mechanical and thermal loads. The coupling effects of mechanical deformation and temperature in the material are considered through the development of a thermo-elasto-viscoplastic constitutive model at finite strain. A meshfree Galerkin approach is used to discretize the weak forms of the energy ...

For aerospace or hypersonic cruise vehicle the state of the boundary layer is of great importance because for turbulent boundary layers, the thermal loads and skin friction are higher than in laminar boundary layers. Therefore , knowledge of cooling features and laminar-turbulent transition is necessary for the design of the thermal protection system (TPS). Different strategies are used to redu...