Thermal Measurements and Inverse Techniques

Helcio Orlande and Renato M. Cotta are both with the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Olivier Fudym is an Associate Professor in Heat Transfer at Ecole des Mines d'Albi, France, and the Coordinator of the "Energy Efficiency and Thermal Sciences" Research Group at RAPSODEE Research Center. Denis Maillet is a Professor of Heat Transfer at Universite de Lorraine and Coordinator of the Energy Research Group at the LEMTA-Lab in Nancy, France.

• Modeling and Measurements in Heat TransferModeling in Heat Transfer. A Multiscale Modeling Approach to Predict Thermophysical Properties of Heterogeneous Media. Temperature Measurements: Thermoelectricity and Microthermocouples. Temperature Measurements: Resistive Sensors. Heat Flux Sensors. Radiative Measurements of Temperature.Inverse Heat Transfer ProblemsIntroduction to Linear Least Squares Estimation and Ill-Posed Problems for Experimental Data Processing. Inverse Problems and Regularization. Non-linear Estimation Problems. A Survey of Basic Deterministic, heuristic and Hybrid Methods for Single Objective Optimization and Response Surface Generation. Adjoint Methods. Bayesian Approaches for the Solution of Inverse Problems. Identification of Low Order Models and Use for Solving Inverse Boundary Problems. Karhunen-Loeve Decomposition for Data, Noise, and Model Reduction in Inverse Problems. Explicit Formulations for Radiative Transfer Problems.ApplicationsAnalysis of Errors in Measurements and Inversion. Multisignal Least Squares: Dispersion, Bias, Regularization. Thermophysical Properties Identification in the Frequency Domain. Front Face Thermal Characterization of Materials by a Photothermal Pulse Technique. Estimation of Space Variable Thermophysical Properties. Inverse Thermal Radiation Problems: Estimation of Radiative Properties of Dispersed Media.