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Hotspot is a ubiquitous phenomenon in microdevices/chips. In homogeneous nanoscale graphene disk with a hotspot, a graded thermal conductivity is observed previously even when the system size is fixed. However, the underlying physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-05 Chuang Zhang , Dengke Ma , Manyu Shang , Xiao Wan , JingTao Lü , Zhaoli Guo , Baowen Li , Nuo Yang

We prove the hydrodynamic limit for a one-dimensional harmonic chain of interacting atoms with a random flip of the momentum sign. The system is open: at the left boundary it is attached to a heat bath at temperature $T_-$, while at the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Tomasz Komorowski , Stefano Olla , Marielle Simon

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-06-08 Chuang Zhang , Songze Chen , Zhaoli Guo

Heat conduction in dielectric crystals originates from the propagation of atomic vibrations, whose microscopic dynamics is well described by the linearized phonon Boltzmann transport equation. Recently, it was shown that thermal…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Michele Simoncelli , Nicola Marzari , Andrea Cepellotti

In this paper we revisit the derivation of boundary conditions for the Boltzmann Equation. The interaction between the wall atoms and the gas molecules within a thin surface layer is described by a kinetic equation introduced in [9] and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-20 Stéphane Brull , Pierre Charrier , Luc Mieussens

We introduce a gradient flow formulation of linear Boltzmann equations. Under a diffusive scaling we derive a diffusion equation by using the machinery of gradient flows.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-09-03 Giada Basile , Dario Benedetto , Lorenzo Bertini

Consider the initial-boundary value problem for the 2-speed Carleman model of the Boltzmann equation of the kinetic theory of gases set in some bounded interval with boundary conditions prescribing the density of particles entering the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-07-27 François Golse , Francesco Salvarani

The Boltzmann kinetic equation is considered to compute the transport coefficients associated with the mass flux of intruders in a granular gas. Intruders and granular gas are immersed in a gas of elastic hard spheres (molecular gas). We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-07 Rubén Gómez González , Vicente Garzó

In this work, a lattice Boltzmann scheme is developed for numerical solution of the phonon Boltzmann equation under Callaway's dual relaxation model in the hydrodynamic limit. Through a Chapman-Enskog expansion to the lattice Boltzmann…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-06 Yangyu Guo , Moran Wang

We provide a stochastic fractional diffusion equation description of energy transport through a finite one-dimensional chain of harmonic oscillators with stochastic momentum exchange and connected to Langevian type heat baths at the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-22 Aritra Kundu , Cédric Bernardin , Keji Saito , Anupam Kundu , Abhishek Dhar

Ultrafast thermal transport in low-dimensional materials challenges traditional diffusive models due to reduced scattering, strong electron-phonon coupling, and pronounced non-equilibrium effects. To address these complexities, we extend…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Houssem Rezgui , Chuang Zhang , Clivia Sotomayor-Torres

Based on the phonon Boltzmann transport equation under the relaxation time approximation, analytical expressions for the temperature profiles of both steady state and modulated heat conduction inside a thin film deposited on a substrate are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 Jose Ordonez-Miranda , Ronggui Yang , Sebastian Volz , J. J. Alvarado-Gil

We study the heat equation on a half-space or on an exterior domain with a linear dynamical boundary condition. Our main aim is to establish the rate of convergence to solutions of the Laplace equation with the same dynamical boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-03 Marek Fila , Kazuhiro Ishige , Tatsuki Kawakami , Johannes Lankeit

We study the diffusive limit approximation for a nonlinear radiative heat transfer system that arises in the modeling of glass cooling, greenhouse effects and in astrophysics. The model is considered with the reflective radiative boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Mohamed Ghattassi , Xiaokai Huo , Nader Masmoudi

In the current work we construct a multimolecule random process which leads to the Boltzmann equation in the appropriate limit, and which is different from the deterministic real gas dynamics process. We approximate the statistical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-05-30 Rafail V. Abramov

Measurements of thermal diffusivity in several insulators have been shown to reach a Planckian bound on thermal transport that can be thought of as the limit of validity of semiclassical phonon scattering. Beyond this regime, the heat…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-19 Huan-Kuang Wu , Jay Sau

We derive the hydrodynamic limit of a kinetic equation where the interactions in velocity are modelled by a linear operator (Fokker-Planck or Linear Boltzmann) and the force in the Vlasov term is a stochastic process with high amplitude and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Arnaud Debussche , Julien Vovelle

We derive and implement a suitable boundary condition for the kinetic description of the electrons inside a plasma, which takes into account microphysical processes inside the wall. It is based on the surface scattering kernel, which…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Felix Willert , Clemens Hoyer , Gordon K. Grubert , Franz X. Bronold

We prove the acoustic limit from the Boltzmann equation with hard sphere collisions and the Maxwell reflection boundary condition. Our construction of solutions include the interior fluid part and Knudsen-viscous coupled boundary layers.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-16 Ning Jiang , Yulong Wu

We study the heat equation in the exterior of the unit ball with a linear dynamical boundary condition. Our main aim is to find upper and lower bounds for the rate of convergence to solutions of the Laplace equation with the same dynamical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-09 Marek Fila , Kazuhiro Ishige , Tatsuki Kawakami , Johannes Lankeit