Evaluation of heat conduction and visualization of heat flux in a plate making use of heat transfer experiments.

This paper describes the evaluation method of heat conduction and visualization of local heat flux in a heated plate. In the first stage, the temperature distribution of the hated plate was measured in detail by the 'thermocamera' which we developed, using liquid crystal with high resolution (0.01°C). In the next stage, the deviated heat flux in the plate was evaluated by solving numerically the three-dimensional equation of heat conduction. As a result, the heat flux distribution was visualized locally.