Periodic Heat Flow in a Stratified Medium with Application to Permafrost Problems
From abstract: Solutions to the Fourier heat equation for quasi-steady periodic flow in a stratified semi-infinite medium can be obtained readily by standard methods. The results have wide application to studies of earth-temperature variations induced by diurnal, annual, and other periodic variation...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English |
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United States. Government Printing Office.
1959
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| Online Access: | https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc304313/ |
| Summary: | From abstract: Solutions to the Fourier heat equation for quasi-steady periodic flow in a stratified semi-infinite medium can be obtained readily by standard methods. The results have wide application to studies of earth-temperature variations induced by diurnal, annual, and other periodic variations in ground-surface temperature. Much of the previous work on this subject has been interpreted with reference to the solution for the homogeneous case; and this can be seriously in error when applied to stratified earth materials. |
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