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The phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) is widely used for describing multiscale heat conduction (from nm to $\mu$m or mm) in solid materials. Developing numerical approaches to solve this equation is challenging since it is a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 Qingyi Lin , Chuang Zhang , Xuhui Meng , Zhaoli Guo

Predicting nanoscale thermal transport in dielectrics requires models, such as the Boltzmann transport equation (BTE), that account for phonon boundary scattering in structures with complex geometries. Although the BTE has been validated…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-03 S. Aria Hosseini , Alex Greaney , Giuseppe Romano

A framework of finite-velocity model based Boltzmann equation has been developed for convection-diffusion equations. These velocities are kept flexible and adjusted to control numerical diffusion. A flux difference splitting based kinetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-01 S. V. Raghurama Rao , K. S. Shrinath , Ankit Ruhi , Veeredhi Vasudeva Rao

Exotic nondiffusive heat transfer regimes such as the second sound, where heat propagates as a damped wave at speeds comparable to those of mechanical disturbances, often occur at cryogenic temperatures (T) and nanosecond timescales in…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-04 Nikhil Malviya , Navaneetha K. Ravichandran

The aim of this paper is twofold: the first is to formulate and validate a multi-scale discrete Boltzmann method (DBM) based on density functional kinetic theory for thermal multiphase flow systems, ranging from continuum to transition flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-08 Yanbiao Gan , Aiguo Xu , Huilin Lai , Wei Li , Guanglan Sun , Sauro Succi

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

The phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) is widely utilized to study non-diffusive thermal transport. We find a solution of the BTE in the thin film transient thermal grating (TTG) experimental geometry by using a recently developed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-15 Vazrik Chiloyan , Lingping Zeng , Samuel Huberman , Alexei A. Maznev , Keith A. Nelson , Gang Chen

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…

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

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

Numerical prediction of multiscale heat transfer is a challenging problem due to the wide range of time and length scales involved. In this work a discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) is developed for heat transfer in materials with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-02-05 Zhaoli Guo , Kun Xu

Nanoscale thermal transport is governed by the phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE). However, simulating the sub-continuum dynamics remains computationally prohibitive due to the high dimensionality of the phase space and the intrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Roberto Riganti , Luca Dal Negro

Nanostructured semiconducting materials are promising candidates for thermoelectrics due to their potential to suppress phonon transport while preserving electrical properties. Modeling phonon-boundary scattering in complex geometries is…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-02 Giuseppe Romano , Alexie M. Kolpak

Over the past 7 decades, the classical Monte Carlo method has played a huge role in the fields of rarefied gas flow and micro/nano scale heat transfer, but it also has shortcomings: the time step and cell size are limited by the relaxation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 Hongyu Liu , Xiaojian Yang , Chuang Zhang , Xing Ji , Kun Xu

This paper presents approximation methods for time-dependent thermal radiative transfer problems in high energy density physics. It is based on the multilevel quasidiffusion method defined by the high-order radiative transfer equation (RTE)…

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

Understanding ballistic phonon transport effects in transient thermoreflectance experiments and explaining the observed deviations from classical theory remains a challenge. Diffusion equations are simple and computationally efficient but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Jesse Maassen , Mark Lundstrom

Hydrodynamic second sound can be generated by heat pulses when the phonon-phonon interaction is dominantly momentum conserving, and the propagation of the temperature field becomes wavelike rather than diffusive. While the Boltzmann…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-08 Xin Qian , Chuang Zhang , Te-Huan Liu , Ronggui Yang

We report finite-volume simulations of the phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) for heat conduction across the heterogeneous interfaces in SiGe superlattices. The diffuse mismatch model incorporating phonon dispersion and polarization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-17 Dhruv Singh , Jayathi Y. Murthy , Timothy S. Fisher

In this article, we address lattice heat transport in single-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) by a quantum mechanical calculation of three-phonon scattering rates in the framework of the Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) and classical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 Daniel Bruns , Alireza Nojeh , A. Srikantha Phani , Jörg Rottler

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