Reply to short communication "Comment on 'Numerical approach to define a thermodynamically equivalent material for the conjugate heat transfer simulation of very thin coating layers"

Abstract

[EN] In the recent paper "Surface temperature of a multi-layer thermal barrier coated wall subject to an unsteady heat flux" by G. Koutsakis, G. F. Nellis, J. B. Ghandhi, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 155(2020), 119645 the authors have proposed an analytical solution to determine wall temperature of surfaces coated with multi-layer coatings. The solutions are obtained based on the assumptions of one-dimensional heat flux using the matrix method in conjunction with the 1-D Laplace transformed heat diffusion equation. The authors suggest that using this analytical approach a thicker pseudo-material could be found in order to address the 3D conjugate heat transfer problem. This approach is compared with another published methodology that employs a DoE (Design of experiments) in combination with a multiple regression analysis to define a thicker equivalent coating layer. (C) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.