THERMAL PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF SILICA TILES

K. N. Shukla,a A. Pradeep,band S. S. Suneesh

UDC 629.7.018.3:536.24+536.33

The thermal response of nonablating ceramic tiles is studied by the
finite-element method. A continuum model is used to determine the thermal
conductivity of porous materials. The temperature distribution for the
one-dimensional model is compared with the available arc-jet result.
Also presented are the 2D and 3D temperature contours and the heat-flux
distributions for silica tiles. The expression for the pressure distribution
in a silica tile is derived.

aKarunya University, Coimbatore-641114, India; email: kn_shukla@rediffmail.com;
bCollege of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram-695016, India.
Published in Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 79, No. 6, pp. 107-113,
November-December, 2006. Original article submitted November 16, 2005;
revision submitted January 3, 2006.