Abstract
As the size of foam cells increases natural convection arises and the thermal conductivity of the foam starts to grow with the foam ratio remaining constant. The factor that takes into account the effect of convection is determined.
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 259–265, August, 1988.
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Nekrasov, A.G., Tatiev, S.S., Todes, O.M. et al. Thermal characteristics of water foams. Journal of Engineering Physics 55, 897–902 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00870739
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00870739