ESTIMATES OF EQUIVALENT HEAT CONDUCTIVITY COEFFICIENTS OF CARBON NANOTUBES

We have obtained estimates of equivalent heat conductivity coeffi cients of nanostructured elements on the basis of the constructed mathematical model of the thermal energy transfer in a single-layer and a multilayer nanotube surrounded by a homogeneous material in the composite matrix. The values of such coeffi cients permit conditional replacement of nanotubes by solid anisotropic fi bers, which makes it possible, in predicting the effective heat conductivity coeffi cient of a composite modifi ed by carbon nanotubes, to use the known methods developed in detail to fi t fi brous composites
   
Author:  V. S. Zarubin, I. Yu. Savel′eva, and E. S. Sergeeva
Keywords:  carbon nanotube, equivalent heat conductivity coeffi cient, composite, mathematical modeling
Page:  1274