Thermal properties of materials

Know the different modes of heat transfer
Be able to identify the modes of heat transfer in physical problems
Know the definitions of different thermal properties of materials and their physical meaning
Know the theoretical and experimental bases of thermal property metrology techniques.

Heat transfer and thermal properties


Introduction (reminder of basic quantities needed to describe heat transfers)
Phenomenological description of heat transfer modes:

Conduction
Convection
Radiation

Stationary and variable heat transfer regimes (thermal accommodation and total thermal accommodation)
Heat transfer modeling:

Heat balance
Identification of different types of thermal boundary conditions and their mathematical description.
Initial conditions


Methods for thermal characterization of materials in the stationary regime

Hot plate method


Methods for thermal characterization of materials in the transient regime

"Flash" method
Hot plane method
Hot wire method
Methods for thermal characterization at the micrometer scale (3-omega, photothermal radiometry, thermoreflectance)

Physics

Battaglia J. L., Kusiak A., Puiggali J. R., Introduction aux transferts thermiques, Cours et exercices, Dunod, 2010, 2nd edition 2014.
Frank P. Incropera, David P. DeWitt, Introduction to Heat Transfer, Wiley: editions 1 to 10