A HEAT-BALANCE INTEGRAL MODEL OF THE THERMISTOR


WOOD A., KUTLUAY S.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER, cilt.38, sa.10, ss.1831-1840, 1995 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

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A simplified model of one particular thermistor is presented and an approximate functional solution for the evolving coupled thermo-electric problem is obtained by an application of the heat balance integral method. The solution is shown to exhibit all the correct physical characteristics and this simple model extracts a mechanism by which the observed cracking of these devices might be initiated.