Ernest Karawacki

TL;DR: In this article, a new variation of the hot disk method was proposed for transient measurements of thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity, and specific heat capacity in thin samples of metallic materials, which can be reduced to a volume less than ten cubic centimeters for copper at room temperature.

TL;DR: In this article, a transient hot-strip method has been developed for use with solids and fluids with low electrical conductivity, where the hot strip is used both as a constant plane heat source and a sensor of the temperature increase.

TL;DR: The transient hot-strip (THS) method has been used for thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity studies of electrically conducting materials by introducing a thin electrically insulating layer between the hot strip and the metallic material under study as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the transient hot-strip method has been used for the study of solids with direction dependent thermal conductivity and the results are in good agreement with earlier reported data.

TL;DR: In this article, a systematic study of the thermal conductivity of beds of moist silica gel is presented, where the influence of porosity, water content, total gas pressure and temperature is determined through measurements under transient conditions with the transient hot-strip (THS) method and under static conditions in a bench-scale reactor.