A predictive study on effective thermal conductivity of sintered nickel powder under different thermal processing conditions

Abstract

Effective Thermal Conductivity (ETC) plays a key role in the thermal performance evaluation of samples with porous structure, which can be characterized by multiple physical properties such as particle sizes, porosity, and surface energy. The thermal conductivity of un-sintered porous material has been highlighted in most previous studies, while the evaluation of sintered thermal conductance is scarcely mentioned before. This study aims to …