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Numerical modelling of effective thermal conductivity for modified geomaterial using lattice element method

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Macroscopic parameters such as effective thermal conductivity (ETC) is an important parameter which is affected by micro and meso level behaviour of particulate materials, and has been extensively examined in the past decades. In this paper, a new lattice based numerical model is developed to predict the ETC of sand and modified high thermal backfill material for energy transportation used for underground power cables. 2D and 3D simulations are performed to analyse and detect differences resulting from model simplification. The thermal conductivity of the granular mixture is determined numerically considering the volume and the shape of the each constituting portion. The new numerical method is validated with transient needle measurements and the existing theoretical and semi empirical models for thermal conductivity prediction sand and the modified backfill material for dry condition. The numerical prediction and the measured values are in agreement to a large extent.

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This research project is financially supported by the research grant BMWi/KF3067303KI3 and ZF4016802HF5 provided by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany.

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    Zarghaam Haider Rizvi, Dinesh Shrestha, Amir S. Sattari & Frank Wuttke

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Rizvi, Z.H., Shrestha, D., Sattari, A.S. et al. Numerical modelling of effective thermal conductivity for modified geomaterial using lattice element method. Heat Mass Transfer 54, 483–499 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00231-017-2140-2

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