An analytical model for the thermal conductivity of soils during a freezing process

J Bi, Z Wu, Y Zhang, H Wen, Y Shen, S Yang… - … Communications in Heat …, 2023 - Elsevier
The thermal conductivity of freezing soils (λ) plays a vital role in the analysis of heat and
water transfer in cold engineering regions. However, models for describing the variations in …

Evaluating thermal conductivity of soil-rock mixtures in Qinghai-Tibet plateau based on theory models and machine learning methods

Q Wang, R Bai, Z Zhou, W Zhu - International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
The thermal property of the scum layer (soil-rock mixtures) has dominant influence on the
heat exchange efficiency between the lower rock layer and the upper environment in the …