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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

Thermal management is extremely important for designing high-performance devices. The lattice thermal conductivity of materials is strongly dependent on the structural defects at different length scales, particularly point defects like…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-24 Yandong Sun , Yanguang Zhou , Ming Hu , G. Jeffrey Snyder , Ben Xu , Wei Liu

We present BTE-Barna (Boltzmann Transport Equation - Beyond the Rta for NAnosystems), a software package that extends the Monte Carlo (MC) module of the almaBTE solver of the Peierls-Boltzmann transport equation for phonons (PBTE) to work…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Martí Raya-Moreno , Xavier Cartoixà , Jesús Carrete

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Bjorn Vermeersch

First-principles calculations of thermal transport in homogeneous materials have reached remarkable predicting power. Modeling deterministically phonon transport in nanostructures, however, poses novel challenges; notably, it entails…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-08 Giuseppe Romano

Steady-state electrothermal systems involve strongly coupled heat transfer, fluid flow, and electric-potential transport, creating severe numerical challenges for standard physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) due to stark disparities in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Yuqing Zhou , Ze Tao , Hanxuan Wang , Fujun Liu

Advances in nanotechnology have facilitated the exploration of submicron thermal transport. At this scale, Fourier's law is no longer applicable, and the governing equation for thermal transport is the phonon Boltzmann transport equation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Yue Hu , Ru Jia , Jiaxuan Xu , Yufei Sheng , Minhua Wen , James Lin , Yongxing Shen , Hua Bao

Differential equations are indispensable to engineering and hence to innovation. In recent years, physics-informed neural networks (PINN) have emerged as a novel method for solving differential equations. PINN method has the advantage of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Mayank Raj , Pramod Kumbhar , Ratna Kumar Annabattula

We present a Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN) to simulate the thermochemical evolution of a composite material on a tool undergoing cure in an autoclave. In particular, we solve the governing coupled system of differential equations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Sina Amini Niaki , Ehsan Haghighat , Trevor Campbell , Anoush Poursartip , Reza Vaziri

A synthetic iterative scheme is developed for thermal applications in hotspot systems with large temperature variance. Different from previous work with linearized equilibrium state and small temperature difference assumption, the phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Chuang Zhang , Qin Lou , Hong Liang

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 introduce a methodology for density-based topology optimization of non-Fourier thermal transport in nanostructures, based upon adjoint-based sensitivity analysis of the phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) and a novel material…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-10 Giuseppe Romano , Steven G. Johnson

The placement of temperature sensitive and safety-critical components is crucial in the automotive industry. It is therefore inevitable, even at the design stage of new vehicles that these components are assessed for potential safety…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Philip Heger , Markus Full , Daniel Hilger , Norbert Hosters

A physics informed neural network (PINN) incorporates the physics of a system by satisfying its boundary value problem through a neural network's loss function. The PINN approach has shown great success in approximating the map between the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-17 Revanth Mattey , Susanta Ghosh

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

In this study, the capabilities of the Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN) method are investigated for three major tasks: modeling, simulation, and optimization in the context of the heat conduction problem. In the modeling phase, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Ehsan Ghaderi , Mohamad Ali Bijarchi , Siamak Kazemzadeh Hannani , Ali Nouri Boroujerdi

Outdoor thermal comfort is a critical determinant of urban livability, particularly in hot desert climates where extreme heat poses challenges to public health, energy consumption, and urban planning. Mean Radiant Temperature ($T_{mrt}$) is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Pouya Shaeri , Saud AlKhaled , Ariane Middel

Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) have emerged as powerful tools for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). However, training PINNs from scratch is often computationally intensive and time-consuming. To address this problem,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-21 Sidi Wu

The electron-phonon coupling in ultrafast heating systems is studied within the framework of Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) with coupled electron and phonon transport. A discrete unified gas kinetic scheme is developed to solve the BTE,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-25 Chuang Zhang , Rulei Guo , Meng Lian , Junichiro Shiomi

The description of nonequilibrium states of solids in a simplified manner is a challenge in the field of ultrafast dynamics. Here, the phonon thermalization in solids through the three-phonon scatterings is investigated by solving the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-02 Shota Ono