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High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-28 William D. Biggs , Jorge E. Santos

In this work we derive and study the analytical solution of the voltage and current diffusion equation for the case of a finite-length resistor-constant phase element (CPE) transmission line (TL) network that can represent a model for…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-07 Anis Allagui , Enrique H. Balaguera , Chunlei Wang

This paper deals with thermoelectric problems including the Peltier and Seebeck effects. The coupled elliptic and doubly quasilinear parabolic equations for the electric and heat currents are stated, respectively, accomplished with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-04 Luisa Consiglieri

This paper is concerned with the optimal control problem governed by a linear parabolic equation and subjected to box constraints on control variables. This type of problem has important applications in heating and cooling systems. By…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-04 Hailing Wang , Changjun Yu , Di Wu

The heat equation is considered in the complex medium consisting of many small bodies (particles) embedded in a given material. On the surfaces of the small bodies an impedance boundary condition is imposed. An equation for the limiting…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-01-12 A. G. Ramm

The emergence of data-driven science has opened up new avenues for understanding the thermophysical properties of materials. For decades, alloys are known to possess very low thermal conductivity, but the extreme thermal conductivity can be…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-04-21 Jiahao Yan , Han Wei , Han Xie , Xiaokun Gu , Hua Bao

Separating heat from charge in a material is an extremely challenging task since they are transported by the very same carriers, i.e. electrons or holes. In this Letter we show that such separation can reach 100% efficiency in a hybrid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-28 Carlo Panu , Fabio Taddei , Marco Polini , Amir Yacoby

This paper studies a two-material optimal design problem for the time-averaged duality pairing between a (possibly time-dependent) heat source and the weak solution of an initial-boundary value problem for the heat equation with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Kei Matsushima , Tomoyuki Oka

Tuning thermal transport in nanostructured materials is a powerful approach to develop high-efficiency thermoelectric materials. Using a recently developed approach based on the phonon mean free path dependent Boltzmann transport equation,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Giuseppe Romano , Jeffrey C. Grossman

The present work investigates the causal parameter space of the Mueller-Israel-Stewart second-order theory for heat-conducting fluids in the Eckart frame for one-dimensional fluid flow in systems with finite baryon density. It is shown that…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-23 Victor Roy

We consider the optimal control of singular nonlinear partial differential equation which is the distributional formulation of the multiphase Stefan type free boundary problem for the general second order parabolic equation. Boundary heat…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Ugur G. Abdulla , Evan Cosgrove

Toward measuring the thermal properties of exfoliated atomically thin materials, we demonstrate simultaneous measurements of the thermal conductivity and specific heat in suspended membranes. We use the 3{\omega} technique applied to…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-28 Yiwei Le , Erdong Song , Jason Li , Erik A. Henriksen

In this paper we consider an optimal control problem governed by a semilinear heat equation with bilinear control-state terms and subject to control and state constraints. The state constraints are of integral type, the integral being with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-15 M. Soledad Aronna , J. -Frédéric Bonnans , Axel Kröner

For a thermal conductivity that is spatially uniform and independent of temperature, Fourier's law of heat transfer predicts a curl-free heat-flux. In the quasi-ballistic phonon transport regime, where the Fourier law breaks down, it has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-02 Ashok T. Ramu , Carl D. Meinhart , John E. Bowers

Self-heating in surrounding gate transistors can degrade its on-current performance and reduce lifetime. If a transistor heats/cools with time-constants less than the inverse of the operating frequency, a predictable, frequency-independent…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-09-02 SangHoon Shin , Muhammad Masuduzzaman , Muhammad Ashraful Alam

An efficient semi-implicit second-order-accurate finite-difference method is described for studying incompressible Rayleigh-Benard convection in a box, with sidewalls that are periodic, thermally insulated, or thermally conducting.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 K. -H. Chiam , M. -C. Lai , H. S. Greenside

Aim of this short note is to show that a dimension-free Harnack inequality on an infinitesimally Hilbertian metric measure space where the heat semigroup admits an integral representation in terms of a kernel is suffcient to deduce a sharp…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-07-17 Luca Tamanini

We consider two steady-state heat conduction systems called, $S$ and $S_\alpha$, in a multidimensional bounded domain $D$ for the Poisson equation with source energy $g$. In one system, we impose mixed boundary conditions (temperature $b$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Julieta Bollati , Mariela C. Olguin , Domingo A. Tarzia

This paper aims to provide directly the observability inequality of backward stochastic heat equations for measurable sets. As an immediate application, the null controllability of the forward heat equations is obtained. Moreover, an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-14 Donghui Yang , Jie Zhong

We introduce a new method of solution for the convective heat transfer under forced laminar flow that is confined by two parallel plates with a distance of 2a or by a circular tube with a radius of a. The advection-conduction equation is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-30 Zhijie Xu