The research on the thermal property of the hydrate has recently made great progress,
including the understanding of hydrate thermal conductivity and effective thermal …

Thermal conductivity (TC) of freezing soils has a large effect on the heat and water transfer
analysis in the permafrost and seasonally frozen ground regions. Most TC models have …

Accurately obtaining the effective thermal conductivity of porous building materials can
correctly understand its thermal insulation performance and ensure the selection of effective …

The thermal conductivity has an important influence on the geotechnical and
geoenvironmental engineering. Most existing thermal conductivity models appear to …

In this work, we conducted a mechanistic study on pore‐scale mechanisms controlling heat
transfer in partially saturated porous media at unfrozen and frozen conditions. Experimental …

Cement-based material is frequently used in many aspects. For example, it is used as a sort
of grout in a ground source heat pump system, whose heat conduction performance directly …

A fixed-parameter ETC predictive model was proposed using simple combinatory rules,
based on which the tri-weighted means (arithmetic, geometric and harmonic) of tri-upper …

A good knowledge of the effective thermal conductivity (ETC) of geomaterials is required to
achieve accurate study on heat transfer in a variety of earth-contact engineering …

Thermal properties of sand are of importance in numerous engineering and scientific
applications ranging from energy storage and transportation infrastructures to underground …

Energy saving and decarbonization become consensus of the world. Medium-depth ground
source heat pumps employing coaxial borehole heat exchangers have emerged as a pivotal …