Measurements, Mechanisms, and Models of Heat Transport

Table of Contents

1. The Macroscopic Picture of Heat Retained and Heat Emitted: Thermodynamics and its Historical Development 2. Macroscopic Analysis of the Flow of Energy into and through Matter from Spectroscopic Measurements and Electromagnetic Theory 3. The Macroscopic Picture of Diffusive Heat Flow at Low Energy 4. Methods used to Determine Heat Transport and Related Properties, with Comparisons 5. Reconciling the Kinetic Theory of Gas With Gas Transport Data 6. Transport Behavior of Common, Pourable Liquids: Evidence for Mechanisms other than Collisions 7. Thermal Diffusivity Data on Nonmetallic Crystalline Solids from Laser-Flash Analysis 8. A Macroscopic Model of Blackbody Emissions with Implications 9. Transport Properties of Metals, Alloys and Their Melts From LFA Measurements 10. Heat and Mass Transfer in Glassy and Molten Silicates 11. Modeling Diffusion of Heat in Solids 12. Conclusions and Future Work

Appendix A: Conventions, abbreviations, and variables used B: Guide to an electronic deposit of thermal diffusivity data C: Summary of the Literature on Heat Capacity and Density (or Thermal Expansivity) as a Function of Temperature

Authors

Anne M. Hofmeister Research Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, USA. Anne M. Hofmeister is research professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. She received an MS in physics from University of Illinois and a PhD in geology from California Institute of Technology, United States and has received several fellowships and awards. She has served as editor of American Mineralogist and was recently the keynote speaker at the European Conference on Mineral Spectroscopy. Her research interests include heat transport, thermodynamics, interaction of light with matter, and the applications of such studies to planetary science, earth science, astronomy, and materials science. She has authored over 140 peer-reviewed publications in astronomy, physics, geology, and planetary science journals.