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We report heat pulse experiments at room temperature that cannot be described by Fourier's law. The experimental data is modelled properly by the Guyer--Krumhansl equation, in its over-diffusion regime. The phenomenon is due to conduction…
The non-Fourier heat conduction phenomenon on room temperature is analyzed from various aspects. The first one shows its experimental side, in what form it occurs and how we treated it. It is demonstrated that the Guyer-Krumhansl equation…
Results of heat pulse experiments in various artificial and natural materials are reported in the paper. The experiments are performed at room temperature with macroscopic samples. It is shown that temperature evolution does not follow the…
Determination of the thermal properties of a material is an important task in many scientific and engineering applications. How a material behaves when subjected to high or fluctuating temperatures can be critical to the safety and…
We study methods for calculating the thermal diffusivity of solids from laser flash experiments. This experiment involves subjecting the front surface of a small sample of the material to a heat pulse and recording the resulting temperature…
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Due to their low density and large specific surface area, metal foams are increasingly used as cellular materials that combine excellent structural and thermal properties. Their cellular structure makes them particularly suitable for use in…
The thermal diffusivity measurement of impacted composites using pulsed methods presents an ill-posed inverse problem influenced by multiple factors such as sample thickness, cooling duration, and excitation energy. In this study, a novel…
Among the numerous heat conduction models, the Guyer--Krumhansl equation has a special role. Besides its various application possibilities in nanotechnology, cryotechnology, and even in case of modeling heterogeneous materials, it poses…
The laser flash method for measuring thermal diffusivity of solids involves subjecting the front face of a small sample to a heat pulse of radiant energy and recording the resulting temperature rise on the opposite (rear) surface. For the…
It is a long-lasting task to understand heat conduction phenomena beyond Fourier. Besides the low-temperature experiments on extremely pure crystals, it has turned out recently that heterogeneous materials with macro-scale size can also…
Photo-thermal methods for measuring thermal diffusivity inherently pose an ill-posed inverse problem, affected by factors such as sample thickness, heating or cooling time, and excitation energy. Measurement accuracy becomes particularly…
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