Abstract
The objective of this paper was to calculate effective thermal conductivity of polyurethane foam used in thermal insulation of buildings with a new modeling approach. The proposed approach was more realistic as it simulated the real fraction of closed cells and open cells in the foam and it modeled the real physical phenomena that happen when both types of cells are present. This study was investigated for polyurethane foam with 70 % of closed cells and 30 % of open cells, by using finite element method and numerical homogenization. The result showed that there was a systematic change in thermal conductivity when the type of cell (closed, open and mixed cell) varied at fixed volume fraction. Also the effective thermal conductivity of mixed cell of this PU foam was about λm= 0.07 W.m-1.K-1. Simulation proved the interest of this approach. Indeed, it brought new factor that influence the effective parameters which was fraction of closed cells and open cells. They suggested new method for computing thermal conductivity as a function of thermal conductivity of closed and open cell foam.
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