Analytical Modeling and Thermal Insulation of Insulating Material

Abstract

The study focuses on heat transfer through an insulating material using various methods followed by adopting glass wool, calcium silicate and asbestos. Heat transfer is one of the important areas of engineering applications and it is growing day to day in various other fields such as automobile, industrial and power plants where the efficiency is dependent on temperature. One can easily understand the flow of heat and can solve and analyze the flow of heat in an unusual situation. Since the use of software is useful, one can easily understand the problem and can get results faster which is very helpful in today’s world. The research carried out is to explain briefly how the rate of heat transfer increases gradually up to some extent and the layers on it is observed as constant straight line. The cost of insulating material can be reduced and for assembling the part, the space can be minimized. The temperature distribution of cylindrical pipe is analyzed in this work. Three various insulating materials is used and solved by thermal resistance method and finite difference method using Taylor series approximation. The modeling and simulation of cylindrical pipe is obtained by the software known as Ansys Workbench 2021 R1 and the results are drawn.