EFFECTS OF SURFACE MORPHOLOGY ON THERMAL CONTACT RESISTANCE
EFFECTS OF SURFACE MORPHOLOGY ON THERMAL CONTACT RESISTANCE
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DOI:
10.2298/tsci11s1033h
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发表时间:
2011
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影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
Haiming Huang;Xiaoliang Xu
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作者:
Haiming Huang;Xiaoliang Xu
The thermal contact resistance is common in aerospace industry, nuclear reactors and electronic equipments. The work addresses a new scheme for determining the thermal contact resistance between a smooth surface of a film and a rough surface of a metal specimen. The finite element method was used as a tool to explore the surface morphology effect on the thermal contact resistance while the temperature of the contact surface was determined by a regression method. According to the results developed, the temperature on the contact surfaces linearly drops with the increasing average height of surface roughness and nonlinearly drops with the increasing ratio between non-contact area and nominal contact area. On the other hand, the thermal contact resistance increases linearly with increases in the average height of the surface roughness. What's more, the thermal contact resistance increases in a non-linear manner as the ratio of the non-contact area to the nominal contact area is increasing. When a heat flux conducts through two adjacent contact surfaces, an additional thermal contact resistance (TCR) appears at the contact region. The relationship of TCR with temperature, pressure, surface morphology and direction of heat flow is a complex and non- linear problem. TCR is a key factor in actual thermal design and relays to the uncertainty factors in thermal analysis. TCR analysis and determination is a hot topic in the contemporary literature addressing both simulation and experimental studies. In this context, Rao (1) reported a new method involving numerical heat transfer and parameter identification, while Amara et al. (2) used a random contact distribution and calculated TCR with a 3-D model. The approach of Shen et al. (3) utilizes different topological shapes to simulate the contact surfaces and yielded an approximate formula. Further, the Jackson's model (4) relates the effects of the scale dependent surface features and properties with the TCR. Chen et al. (5) measured TCR between grapheme and silicon dioxide by using a differential method. Wu et al. (6) found that the thermal resistances of porous materials could be effectively improved by adding appropriate number of interlayer of appropriate thickness.