[Stoves] Stove Material Properties

[Tae Young Lee]

Thank you Crispin and Robert.

I have another question:
When trying to build an insulative wall for a stove(only focusing on  
the stove material), is achieving a low thermal conductivity the  
primary objective since other parameters such as convective heat  
transfer coefficient depends on the air flow, etc.? From various  
papers I have looked at, it seems that they all relate the performance  
to thermal conductivity. Also, I have found numerous papers  
correlating bulk density or porosity to thermal conductivity, but when  
I calculated the R^2 values for those, the highest I've found is only  
0.19, which is ridiculously low. To me, there is no correlation  
between those properties. Could you comment?
Thank you very much.

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Tae Young Lee

PhD Candidate
Mechanical Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Columbia University