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The magic angle twisted bilayer systems give rise to many exotic phenomena in two-dimensional electronic or photonic platforms. Here, we study the twisted near-field energy radiation between graphene metasurfaces with nonequilibrium drifted…

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Due to ample applications from medical services to industrial activities, the study of flow and heat transfer through a curved duct has attracted considerable attention to the researchers. In this paper, a comprehensive numerical study is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-02 Selim Hussen , Mohammad Sanjeed Hasan , Mahtab Uddin , Rabindra Nath Mondal

Thermal rectification and negative differential thermal conductance were realized in harmonic chains in this work. We used the generalized Caldeira-Leggett model to study the heat flow. In contrast to the most previous studies considering…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-16 Yi Ming , Hui-Min Li , Ze-Jun Ding

Thermal convection in fluid layers heated from below are usually realized experimentally as well as treated theoretically with fixed boundaries on which conditions for the temperature and the velocity field are prescribed. The thermal and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-02-08 R. D. Simitev , F. H. Busse

We propose a new mechanism that enables heat flow from a colder region to a hotter region without necessitating either particle transport or external work on the conductor, thereby bypassing the compressor part of a classical heat pump…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-29 Puneet Kumar Patra , Baidurya Bhattacharya

We explore layered strongly correlated materials as a platform to identify and control unconventional heat transfer phenomena. We demonstrate that these systems can be tailored to sustain a wide spectrum of heat transport regimes, ranging…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-29 Giacomo Mazza , Marco Gandolfi , Massimo Capone , Francesco Banfi , Claudio Giannetti

Recent laboratory experiments suggest an intrinsic asymmetry between heating and cooling, with heating occurring more efficiently. Two decades earlier, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations had examined a related setup - heating one side of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-04 Hesam Arabzadeh , Brad Lee Holian

Radiative thermal diodes based on two-element structures rectify heat flows thanks to a temperature dependence of material optical properties. The heat transport asymmetry through these systems, however, remains weak without a significant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-15 Ivan Latella , Philippe Ben-Abdallah , Moladad Nikbakht

In this work, we study the thermalization between two bodies separated by a vacuum gap by coupling the non-Fourier behavior of the materials with the radiative heat transfer in the near-field. Unlike the diffusion-type temperature profile,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 D. Becerril , A. Camacho de la Rosa , R. Esquivel-Sirvent

An analytical model of unsteady heat transfer in a one-dimensional harmonic crystal is presented. A nonlocal temperature is introduced as a generalization of the kinetic temperature. A closed equation determining unsteady thermal processes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-25 Anton M. Krivtsov

Colloidal suspensions of ferromagnetic nano-particles, so-called ferrofluids, are shown to be suitable systems to demonstrate and investigate thermal ratchet behavior: By rectifying thermal fluctuations, angular momentum is transferred to a…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Andreas Engel , Hanns Walter Mueller , Peter Reimann , Achim Jung

We study the radiative heat transfer and the Casimir-Lifshitz force occurring between two bodies in a system out of thermal equilibrium. We consider bodies of arbitrary shape and dielectric properties, held at two different temperatures,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Riccardo Messina , Mauro Antezza

The form of energy termed heat that typically derives from lattice vibrations, i.e. the phonons, is usually considered as waste energy and, moreover, deleterious to information processing. However, with this colloquium, we attempt to rebut…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-21 Nianbei Li , Jie Ren , Lei Wang , Gang Zhang , Peter Hänggi , Baowen Li

In this Letter, we show numerically that the rectifying effect of heat flux in a one-dimensional two-segment Frenkel-Kontorova chain demonstrated in recent literature is merely available under the limit of the weak coupling between the two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-26 Bambi Hu , Lei Yang , Yong Zhang

We investigate the thermal responses of a harmonic oscillator chain coupled at its boundaries to heat baths held at different temperatures. This setup sustains a steady energy flux, continuously dissipating heat into both reservoirs. By…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-16 Michiel Gautama , Faezeh Khodabandehlou , Christian Maes , Ion Santra

Rayleigh-B{\'e}nard convection experiments were done with two adjacent cubic cells with a partial wall in between to force the generation of two interacting convection rolls. Observed stable states include both counter-rotating and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-14 Eric Brown , Dandan Ji

In every turbulent flow with non-zero viscosity, heat is generated by viscous friction. This heat is then mixed by the velocity field. We consider how heat fluctuations generated this way are injected and distributed over length scales in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-18 Wouter Bos

A key quantity characterizing a time-periodically forced quantum system coupled to a heat bath is the energy flowing in the steady state through the system into the bath, where it is dissipated. We derive a general expression which allows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Matthias Langemeyer , Martin Holthaus

Just as correlations between fluctuating radial and azimuthal velocities produce a coherent stress contributing to the angular momentum transport in turbulent accretion disks, correlations in the velocity and temperature fluctuations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Steven A. Balbus

The dynamics of quantized vortices in rotating $^3$He-B is investigated in the low density (single-vortex) regime as a function of temperature. An abrupt transition is observed at $0.5 T_{\rm c}$. Above this temperature the number of vortex…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. P. Finne , V. B. Eltsov , G. Eska , R. Hanninen , J. Kopu , M. Krusius , E. V. Thuneberg , M. Tsubota