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Abstract
In order to protect the internal components of an aircraft from the damage caused by high temperature and heat flux, an effective thermal protection structure must be designed and developed. In this paper, heat transfer characteristics for an innovative thermal protection coating structure are investigated, based on three-dimensional photonic crystals (SiC-3D PCs). The actual system with coating material, containing photonic crystals, is simplified as a macroscopic model of one-dimensional coupled conduction–radiation heat transfer among three layers composed of semitransparent media. Moreover, according to preliminary physical parameters, heat transfer profiles and thermal protection efficiency for the whole system are estimated. In addition, the effect of the photonic crystals part is analyzed.
Acknowledgments
This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation (51006026, 90916020, 50930007) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (grant HIT.NSRIF.2012.072).