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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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-05 Vazrik Chiloyan , Samuel Huberman , Alexei A. Maznev , Keith A. Nelson , Gang Chen

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-22 Bjorn Vermeersch , Ali Shakouri

Controlling heat flow at the nanoscales is pivotal to several applications, including thermal energy harvesting and heat management. However, engineering nanostructures is challenging because phonon-boundary interaction, not contemplated by…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-08 Giuseppe Romano

With the rapid advance of high-performance computing and electronic technologies, understanding thermal conductivity in materials has become increasingly important. This study presents a novel method: the Site-projected Thermal Conductivity…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-22 A. Gautam , Y. G. Lee , C. Ugwumadu , K. Nepal , S. Nakhmanson , D. A. Drabold

Understanding thermal transport in nanoscale systems presents important challenges to both theory and experiment. In particular, the concept of local temperature at the nanoscale appears difficult to justify. Here, we propose a novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-05 Robert Biele , Roberto D'Agosta , Angel Rubio

In this study, we use the transient thermal grating optical technique \textemdash a non-contact, laser-based thermal metrology technique with intrinsically high accuracy \textemdash to investigate room-temperature phonon-mediated thermal…

Three models for nonlocal electron thermal transport are here compared against Vlasov-Fokker-Planck (VFP) codes to assess their accuracy in situations relevant to both inertial fusion hohlraums and tokamak scrape-off layers. The models…

MCBTE solves the linearized Boltzmann transport equation for phonons in three dimensions using a variance-reduced Monte Carlo solution approach. The algorithm is suited for both transient and steady-state analysis of thermal transport in…

We study heat transport in semiconductor nanostructures by solving the Boltzmann Transport Equation (BTE) by means of the Discrete Ordinate Method (DOM). Relaxation time and phase and group velocitiy spectral dependencies are taken into…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Damian Terris , Karl Joulain , David Lacroix , Denis Lemonnier

We show that the local temperature dependence of thermalized electron and phonon populations along metallic carbon nanotubes is the main reason behind this non-linear transport characteristics in the high bias regime. Our model that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. A. Kuroda , J. -P. Leburton

Microwave electromagnetic heating are widely used in many industrial processes. The mathematics involved is based on the Maxwell's equations coupled with the heat equation. The thermal conductivity is strongly dependent on the temperature,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Giovanni Cimatti

In crystals, macroscopic technological properties such as thermal conductivity originate from the microscopic drift and scattering of phonons, commonly described by the Boltzmann Transport Equation (BTE). Despite its widespread use, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-18 Enrico Di Lucente , Nicola Marzari , Michele Simoncelli

Ultrafast and nanoscale heat conduction demands a unified theoretical framework that rigorously bridges macroscopic transport equations with microscopic material properties derived from statistical physics.Existing empirical generalizations…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-08 David E. Crawford , Yi Zeng , Judith Vidal , Jianjun Dong

Conditional probability density functional theory has recently been used to derive the temperature dependence of the Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof (PBE) generalized gradient approximation (GGA) for the exchange-correlation (XC) free energy. We…

We develop a computational framework, based on the Boltzmann transport equation, with the ability to compute the thermal transport in nanostructured materials of any geometry using as the only input the bulk thermal conductivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-20 Giuseppe Romano , Jeffrey C. Grossman

The phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) has been widely utilized to study thermal transport in solids. While for a number of materials the exact solution to the BTE has been obtained for a uniform heat flow, problems arising in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Vazrik Chiloyan , Samuel Huberman , Zhiwei Ding , Jonathan Mendoza , Alexei A. Maznev , Keith A. Nelson , Gang Chen

Steady-state thermal transport in nanostructures with dimensions comparable to the phonon mean-free-path is examined. Both the case of contacts at different temperatures with no internal heat generation and contacts at the same temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Jan Kaiser , Tianli Feng , Jesse Maassen , Xufeng Wang , Xiulin Ruan , Mark Lundstrom

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…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-09-17 Thomas Christen , Frank Kassubek , Rudolf Gati

Efficient ab initio computational methods for the calculation of thermoelectric transport properties of materials are of great avail for energy harvesting technologies. The BoltzTraP code has been largely used to efficiently calculate…

In this paper analysis is performed on a computational method for thermal radiative transfer (TRT) problems based on the multilevel quasidiffusion (variable Eddington factor) method with the method of long characteristics (ray tracing) for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Joseph M. Coale , Dmitriy Y. Anistratov