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Kapitza resistance in the chain models with internal defects is considered. For the case of the linear chain, the exact analytic solution for the boundary resistance is derived for arbitrary linear time-independent conservative inclusion or…
Kapitza thermal resistance is a common feature of material interfaces. It is defined as the ratio of the thermal drop at the interface to the heat flux flowing across the interface. One expects that this resistance will depend on the…
The calculation of the Kapitza boundary resistance between dissimilar harmonic solids has since long (Little [Can. J. Phys. 37, 334 (1959)]) suffered from a paradox: this resistance erroneously tends to a finite value in the limit of…
The thermal boundary resistance (Kapitza resistance) of (001) twist grain boundaries in silicon nanowires depends on the mismatch angle. This dependence is systematically investigated by means of nonequilibrium molecular dynamics…
Using equilibrium and nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations, we determine the Kapitza resistance (or thermal contact resistance) at a model liquid solid interface. The Kapitza resistance (or the associated Kapitza length) can reach…
We study heat transport across individual grain boundaries in suspended monolayer graphene using extensive classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. We construct bicrystalline graphene samples containing grain boundaries with symmetric…
Understanding the temperature dependence of thermal boundary resistance, or Kapitza resistance, between liquid helium and sintered metal has posed a problem in low temperature physics for decades. In the ballistic regime of superfluid…
We study the thermal boundary conduction in one-dimensional harmonic and $\phi^{4}$ lattices, both of which consist of two segments coupled by a harmonic interaction. For the ballistic interfacial heat transport through the harmonic…
The Kapitza or thermal boundary resistance (TBR), which limits heat dissipation from a thin film to its substrate, is a major factor in the thermal management of ultrathin nanoelectronic devices and is widely assumed to be a property of…
We study the conduction of heat across a narrow solid strip trapped by an external potential and in contact with its own liquid. Structural changes, consisting of addition and deletion of crystal layers in the trapped solid, are produced by…
A two-segment Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattices has been investigated by using nonequilibrium molecular dynamics. Here we present an anomalous negative differential thermal resistance (NDTR) that have not been reported in Frenkel-Kontorova and…
The linear response to temperature variations is well characterised for equilibrium systems but a similar theory is not available, for example, for inertial heat conducting systems, whose paradigm is the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) model driven…
During the fabrication process of large scale silicene through common chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technique, polycrystalline films are quite likely to be produced, and the existence of Kapitza thermal resistance along grain boundaries…
Thermal gradients impart thermophoretic forces on colloidal particles, pushing colloids towards cold or hot regions, a phenomenon called thermophoresis. Current theoretical approaches relate the Soret coefficient to local changes in the…
Silicon dioxide and silicon (SiO$_{2}$/Si) interface plays a very important role in semiconductor industry. However, at nanoscale, its interfacial thermal properties haven't been well understood so far. In this paper, we systematically…
Cooling electronic devices to cryogenic temperatures (< 77 K) is crucial in various scientific and engineering domains. Efficient cooling involves the removal of heat generated from these devices through thermal contact with either a liquid…
Studies of thermal transport in long-range (LR)interacting systems are currently particularly challenging. The main difficulties lie in the choice of boundary conditions and the definition of heat current when driving systems in an…
Nonintegrability is a necessary condition for the thermalization of a generic Hamiltonian system. In practice, the integrability can be broken in various ways. As illustrating examples, we numerically studied the thermalization behaviors of…
The pioneering computer simulations of the energy relaxation mechanisms performed by Fermi, Pasta and Ulam can be considered as the first attempt of understanding energy relaxation and thus heat conduction in lattices of nonlinear…
We study interface thermal resistance (ITR) in a system consisting of two dissimilar anharmonic lattices exemplified by Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) model and Frenkel-Kontorova (FK) model. It is found that the ITR is asymmetric, namely, it…