Recent content by SimoneSk

Hi @jrmichler , thanks for getting back. No, this is not homework. Is more a curiosity of mine. I am aware (please correct me if I am wrong), that a way to retrieve the thickness would be apply: Volume = (E_tot) ./ (Rho.*(Cp .* D_T)), where, simplyfying, E_Tot = E_Rad + E_Conv + E_Cond, namely...

Dear all, I have a slab of unknow thickness, with a starting temperature of 1400 K, emplaced over cold ground at a temperature of 285 K (air temperature assumed to be the same and held constant). I do have measures of its cooling curve in terms of radiative heat flux (in Watt) loss at the...

Hi @Chestermiller , I tried to work my head around it. So, If I plot the vertical temperature profiles from 0.25 to 100 yrs using the parameters labelled in figure, all I get is that the substratum heats up, at higher depth, with time. This is certainly related to the temperature of the contact...

Thanks a lot for gettin back. I previously used (θ-θ_Ta)/(θ-θ_Th ) = erfc(z/(2√αt)) = θ_Ta + (θ_Th - θ_Ta) erfc(z/(2√αt)) As given by Turcotte and Schubert in Geodynamics? If this is what you suggest, then I was proably close to an "acceptable" solution. To make it more realistic, would it...

Hi, thanks a lot for getting back. Unfortunatelly, I am not able to provide unique answers to your questions. The thing is, I need to apply a "simplistic" approach to calculate the heating of the substratum with time to solve for this scenario: In a factory, a machine failure caused a spill of...

Dear all, I am having some difficulties in generating some heat conduction curves. My problem is: I have an object at a temperature (Th) of 900 K placed on top of a surface with a temperature (Ta) of 300 K (see Figure). The thermal conductivity (K; W M-1 K-1) is 1.5 whilst the thermal...