TY - JOUR
TI - A study of sensing heat flow through thermal walls by using thermoelectric module
AU - Sippawit Noppawit
AU - Leephakpreeda Thananchai
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2015
VL - 19
IS - 5
SP - 1497
EP - 1505
PT - Article
AB - Demands on heat flow detection at a plane wall via a thermoelectric module  have drawn researchers’ attention to quantitative understanding in order to  properly implement the thermoelectric module in thermal engineering  practices. Basic mathematical models of both heat transfer through a plane  wall and thermoelectric effects are numerically solved to represent genuine  behaviors of heat flow detection by mounting a thermoelectric module at a  plane wall. The heat transfer through the plane wall is expected to be  detected. It is intriguing from simulation results that the heat rejected at  the plane wall is identical to the heat absorbed by the thermoelectric module  when the area of the plane wall is the same as that of the thermoelectric  module. Furthermore, both the area sizes of the plane walls and the  convective heat transfer coefficients at the wall influence amount of the  heat absorbed by the thermoelectric module. Those observational data are  modeled for development of sensing heat flow through a plane wall by a  thermoelectric module in practical uses.