CHAPTER 2: HEAT TRANSFER Click on any of the links below to download high resolution pdfs of any figure FIG. 2.1: Thermal conductivity of some common solids as a function of temperature FIG. 2.2: Heat conduction through helium gas as a function of pressureat various gas temperatures FIG. 2.3: Thermal conductivity of cryogenic gases and liquids as a function FIG. 2.4: Mean apparent thermal conductivity of various multilayer insulation FIG. 2.5: Heat transfer from a metal surface to liquid helium, showing nonboiling curves, nucleate-boiling curves (for various pressures), and film-boiling curves (for various wire diameters) FIG. 2.6: Heat transfer from a metal surface to liquid nitrogen, showing nucleate-boiling curves (for various pressures) and film-boiling curves (for various wire diameters) FIG. 2.7: Thermal conductance across joints, as a function of temperature (solder, varnish, grease, and pressure joints) FIG. 2.8: Thermal conductance as a function of temperature for indium-solder joints FIG. 2.9: Free-convective heat-transfer coefficient h for heat transfer between helium gas and horizontal cylindrical solids at 4.2 K FIG. 2.10: Free-convective heat-transfer coefficient h between nitrogen gas and horizontal cylindrical solids of diameter at 77 K FIG. 2.11: “Thumper” liquid-helium level detector based on thermoacoustic oscillations FIG. 2.12: Different modes of operation for a dipper measurement cryostat. (a) Measurements in a cryogenic-liquid shipping dewar. (b) Variable temperature operation in a high-field superconducting magnet References: Listing of all References for Chapter 2 Figures
