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The spatially resolved near-field radiative heat transfer between a nanoscale probe and a substrate is studied in the fluctuational electrodynamics framework within the dipolar approximation. It is shown that the introduction of a thin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Milo Vescovo , Philippe Ben-Abdallah , Riccardo Messina

A new two-layer model has been proposed to study microscale heat transfer associated with a developing flow boundary layer. As an example, a cold, microscale film of liquid impinging on an isothermal hot, horizontal surface has been…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-03-18 Jian-Jun Shu

This study explores heat transfer mechanisms in heat pipes with sub-critical nanopores using coarse-grained molecular dynamics (CGMD) simulations, aiming to enhance thermal management in nanoscale applications. With the increasing need for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 Sumith Yesudasan

An experimental investigation was carried out to study heat transfer rates in a high-temperature, high-pressure region generated using the shock focusing technique. A shock tube test facility with a specially designed spherically converging…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-21 Saranyamol V. S. , Jithin Sreekumar , Mohammed Ibrahim S

In this work, we study the near-field radiative heat transfer between two suspended sheets of anisotropic 2D materials. It is found that the radiative heat transfer can be enhanced with orders-of-magnitude over the blackbody limit for…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-09 Lixin Ge , Yuping Cang , Ke Gong , Lihai Zhou , Daqing Yu , Yongsong Luo

A parametric study of Drude and Lorentz models performances in maximizing near-field radiative heat transfer between two semi-infinite planes separated by nanometric distances at room temperature is presented in this paper. Optimal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-19 Elyes Nefzaoui , Younès Ezzahri , Jérémie Drevillon , Karl Joulain

Although near-field radiative heat transfer was introduced in the 1950's, interest in the field has recently revived, as the effect promises improved performance in various applications where contactless temperature regulation in the…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-22 Mariano Pascale , Maxime Giteau , Georgia T. Papadakis

The near-field electromagnetic interaction between nanoscale objects produces enhanced radiative heat transfer that can greatly surpass the limits established by far-field black-body radiation. Here, we present a theoretical framework to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Stephen Sanders , Lauren Zundel , Wilton J. M. Kort-Kamp , Diego A. R. Dalvit , Alejandro Manjavacas

Acoustic phonon transport is revealed as a potential radiation-to-conduction transition mechanism for single-digit nanometer vacuum gaps. To show this, we measure heat transfer from a feedback-controlled platinum nanoheater to a laterally…

Stefan-Boltzmann's law indicates that far-field blackbody radiation scales at the fourth power of temperature. The temperature dependence of radiative heat transfer in the near field is expected to be very different due to the contribution…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-11-16 Christophe Lucchesi , Rodolphe Vaillon , Pierre-Olivier Chapuis

We predict an additional thermal transport pathway across metal/non-metal interfaces with large electron-phonon non-equilibrium via evanescent radiative heat transfer. In such systems, electron scattering processes vary drastically and can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-21 William D. Hutchins , Saman Zare , Mehran Habibzadeh , Sheila Edalatpour , Patrick E. Hopkins

When two objects made of a material which supports surface modes are brought in close proximity to each other such that the vacuum gap between them is less than the thermal wavelength of radiation, then the coupling between the surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-08 Karthik Sasihithlu

Radiative heat exchange at the nanoscale presents a challenge for several areas due to its scope and nature. Here, we provide a thermokinetic description of microscale radiative energy transfer including phonon-photon coupling manifested…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-20 Agustín Pérez-Madrid , Luciano C. Lapas , J. Miguel Rubí

Heat transfer and dissipation exists in almost any physical, chemical or biological systems. Cells, as the basic unit of life, undergo continuous heat transfer and dissipation during their metabolism. The heat transfer and dissipation…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-01-03 Pei Song , He Gao , Miao Zhang , Fan Yang , Shan-Shan Li , Bin Kang , Jing-Juan Xu , Hong-Yuan Chen

We study in this work the near-field radiative heat transfer between two semi-infinite parallel planes of highly n-doped semiconductors. Using a nonlocal model of the dielectric permittivity, usually used for the case of metallic planes, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-07-20 F. Singer , Y. Ezzahri , Karl Joulain

Nanofluids are suspensions of nanoparticles and fibers which have recently attracted much attention due to their superior thermal properties. Here, nanofluids are studied in the sense of nanofins transversally attached to a surface, so that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-23 Eliodoro Chiavazzo , Pietro Asinari

We study the near-field radiative heat transfer between two twisted finite-size polar dielectric nanoparticle gratings. Differently from previous studies of the same configuration, we do not rely on any approximated effective medium theory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Minggang Luo , Junming Zhao , Mauro Antezza

A fluctuational electrodynamics-based formalism for calculating near-field radiative heat transfer between objects of arbitrary size and shape and an infinite surface is presented. The surface interactions are treated analytically via…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Sheila Edalatpour , Mathieu Francoeur

A numerical analysis of heat conduction through the cover plate of a heat pipe is carried out to determine the temperature of the working substance, average temperature of heating and cooling surfaces, heat spread in the transmitter, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-02-20 Ramachandran. R , S. Anil Lal

In this contribution, we study situations in which nanoparticles in a fluid are strongly heated, generating high heat fluxes. This situation is relevant to experiments in which a fluid is locally heated using selective absorption of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-16 Samy Merabia , Serguei Shenogin , Laurent Joly , Pawel Keblinski , J. -L. Barrat