Thermophysical Property Estimation by Transient Experiments: The Effect of a Biased Initial Temperature Distribution

Table 2

Property reconstruction with and without correction due to contemporary initial temperature field estimation. is the standard deviation of the temperature residuals.

Estimated parameter	Exact values	Biased estimates (init. cond. error:  K)	% Percentage error	% Integral averaged error	Corrected estimates
, m^2·s^−1	3.8461	3.8969	1.32	1.41	3.8461
, m^2·s^−1K^−1	1.4245	1.4489	1.71	—	1.4245
	1.9230	2.1849	13.6	1.57	1.9234
, K	—	0.097	—	—	0.016