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Understanding ballistic phonon transport effects in transient thermoreflectance experiments and explaining the observed deviations from classical theory remains a challenge. Diffusion equations are simple and computationally efficient but…
It is generally understood that Fourier's law does not describe ballistic phonon transport, which is important when the length of a material is similar to the phonon mean-free-path. Using an approach adapted from electron transport, we…
The Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) has proven indispensable in elucidating quasiballistic heat dynamics. Experimental observations of nondiffusive thermal transients, however, are interpreted almost exclusively through purely diffusive…
The phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) is a powerful tool for studying non-diffusive thermal transport. Here, we develop a new universal variational approach to solving the BTE that enables extraction of phonon mean free path (MFP)…
We study nondiffusive thermal transport by phonons at small distances within the framework of the Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) and demonstrate that the transport is significantly affected by the distribution of phonons emitted by the…
Although the Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) has been exploited to investigate non-diffusive phonon transport for decades, due to the challenges of solving this integro-differential equation, most standard techniques for thermal…
The phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) is widely utilized to study non-diffusive thermal transport. We find a solution of the BTE in the thin film transient thermal grating (TTG) experimental geometry by using a recently developed…
The theory of heat transfer by electromagnetic radiation is based on the radiative transfer equation (RTE) for the radiation intensity, or equivalently on the Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) for the photon distribution. We focus in this…
Cross-plane heat transport in thin films with thickness comparable to the phonon mean free paths is of both fundamental and practical interest. However, physical insight is difficult to obtain for the cross-plane geometry due to the…
In this paper, a fast synthetic iterative scheme is developed to accelerate convergence for the implicit DOM based on the stationary phonon BTE. The key innovative point of the present scheme is the introduction of the macroscopic synthetic…
Previous studies have predicted the failure of Fourier's law of thermal conduction due to the existence of wave like propagation of heat with finite propagation speed. This non-Fourier thermal transport phenomenon can appear in both the…
The propagation of heat in the transient thermal grating geometry is studied based on phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) in different phonon transport regimes. Our analytical and numerical results show that the phonon dispersion…
Hydrodynamic second sound can be generated by heat pulses when the phonon-phonon interaction is dominantly momentum conserving, and the propagation of the temperature field becomes wavelike rather than diffusive. While the Boltzmann…
Mesoscopic numerical simulation has become an important tool in thermal management and energy harvesting at the micro/nano scale, where the Fourier's law failed. However, it is not easy to efficiently solve the phonon Boltzmann transport…
Transient cooling phenomenon in two-dimensional materials is studied based on the phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE). Using a heating laser pulse to heat the two-dimensional disk geometry under the environment temperature, after the…
An efficient implicit kinetic scheme is developed to solve the stationary phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) based on the non-gray model including the phonon dispersion and polarization. Due to the wide range of the dispersed phonon…
In this article, we address lattice heat transport in single-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) by a quantum mechanical calculation of three-phonon scattering rates in the framework of the Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) and classical…
Suitably superimposed grey-medium solutions of the Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) provide a simple yet accurate description of non-grey quasiballistic heat conduction in transient thermal grating experiments. Recent applications of…
Heat transport at nanoscales in semiconductors is investigated with a statistical method. The Boltzmann Transport Equation (BTE) which characterize phonons motion and interaction within the crystal lattice has been simulated with a Monte…
Phonon size effects induce ballistic transport in nanomaterials, challenging Fourier's law. Nondiffusive heat transport is captured by the Peierls-Boltzmann transport equation (BTE), commonly solved under the relaxation time approximation…