Zichun Yang1,2,3, Gaohui Su1,4, Fengrui Sun1
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.36, No.3, pp. 271-292, 2013, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2013.036.271
Abstract In this paper, we investigate the radiative properties and the effective thermal conductivity (ETC) of the opacified silica aerogel by theoretical method. The radiative properties of the opacified silica aerogel are obtained by the modified Mie Scattering Theory that is used for particle scattering in absorbing medium. The modified gamma distribution is used to take account of the non-uniformity of the particle size. The solid thermal conductivity of the composite material is obtained by considering the scale effect of the particles. Based on these calculated thermophysical properties the coupled heat conduction and radiation through the More >