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The relationships between thermal conductivity and other petrophysical properties have been analysed for a borehole drilled in a Tertiary Flysch sequence. We establish equations that permit us to predict rock thermal conductivity from…

Geophysics · Physics 2008-06-17 Andreas Hartmann , Volker Rath , Christoph Clauser

In this paper, a multilayer thermal infrared detector model has been achieved by finite element method (FEM). All contributions of the thermal conductance were taken into account and calculated. In order to maximize the detector response,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-12-08 P. Ramos , A. Andrés , A. López , A. Manzanares

We introduce a lattice dynamics package which calculates elastic, thermodynamic and thermal transport properties of crystalline materials from data on their force and potential energy as a function of atomic positions. The data can come…

In this article, a finite element model is implemented to analyze hydro-thermal convective flow in a porous medium. The mathematical model encompasses Darcy's law for incompressible fluid behavior, which is coupled with a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-27 S. M. Mallikarjunaiah , Dambaru Bhatta

We propose an efficient approach for simultaneous prediction of thermal and electronic transport properties in complex materials. Firstly, a highly efficient machine-learned neuroevolution potential is trained using reference data from…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-08 Zheyong Fan , Yang Xiao , Yanzhou Wang , Penghua Ying , Shunda Chen , Haikuan Dong

The discrete element method (DEM) coupled with computational fluid dynamics (CFD), has been developed to simulate complex solid-fluid flow systems. Today, DEM is regarded as an established approach, with extensive applications in industrial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-16 Toshiki Imatani , Mikio Sakai

We use a magnetothermal resistance method to measure lattice thermal conductivity of pure single crystal metals over a wide range of temperatures. Large transverse magnetic fields are applied to suppress electronic thermal conduction. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-25 Mengliang Yao , Mona Zebarjadi , Cyril P. Opeil

A volumetric lattice Boltzmann (LB) method is developed for the particle-resolved direct numerical simulation of thermal particulate flows with conjugate heat transfer. This method is devised as a single-domain approach by applying the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-11-01 Xiaojie Zhang , Donglei Wang , Qing Li , Rongzong Huang

In a previous paper [Physical Review B \textbf{103}, 035417 (2021)], we showed that the equilibrium molecular dynamics (EMD) method can be used to compute the apparent thermal conductivity of finite systems. It has been shown that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-28 Haikuan Dong , Zheyong Fan , Ping Qian , Yanjing Su

A three-dimensional Multiphysics Lattice Discrete Particle Model (M-LDPM) framework is formulated to investigate the fracture permeability behavior of shale. The framework features a dual lattice system mimicking the mesostructure of the…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-02-12 Weixin Li , Xinwei Zhou , J. William Carey , Luke P. Frash , Gianluca Cusatis

To develop next-generation electronics and high efficiency energy-harvesting devices, it is crucial to understand how charge and heat are transported at the nanoscale. Metallic atomic-size contacts are ideal systems to probe the quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Nico Mosso , Alyssa Prasmusinto , Andrea Gemma , Ute Drechsler , Lukas Novotny , Bernd Gotsmann

This paper presents a computational model, based on the Finite Element Method (FEM), that simulates the thermal response of laser-irradiated tissue. This model addresses a gap in the current ecosystem of surgical robot simulators, which…

An analysis of thermal transients from non-equilibrium ab initio molecular-dynamics simulations can be used to calculate the thermal conductivity of materials with a short phonon mean-free path. We adapt the approach-to-equilibrium…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-01 Felix C. Mocanu , Konstantinos Konstantinou , Stephen R. Elliott

Thermal transport in complex solids is governed by local structure, defects, and anisotropy, yet most continuum models still rely on oversimplified, homogenized conductivities. Here, we bridge atomistic and continuum descriptions by…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-27 C. Ugwumadu , D. A. Drabold , R. M. Tutchton

Achieving high thermoelectric performance requires efficient manipulation of thermal conductivity and a fundamental understanding of the microscopic mechanisms of phonon transport in crystalline solids. One of the major challenges in…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-18 Jiaoyue Yuan , Yubi Chen , Bolin Liao

Shale, like many other sedimentary rocks, is typically heterogeneous, anisotropic, and is characterized by partial alignment of anisotropic clay minerals and naturally formed bedding planes. In this study, a micromechanical framework based…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-24 Weixin Li , Roozbeh Rezakhani , Congrui Jin , Xinwei Zhou , Gianluca Cusatis

Fluid, heat and species transport and oxygen reduction in the cathode of a PEM fuel cell are simulated using multi relaxation lattice Boltzmann method. Heat generation due to oxygen reduction and its effects on transport and reaction are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-03 M. Jithin , Saurabh Siddharth , Malay K. Das , Ashoke De

In crystalline materials, low lattice thermal conductivity is often associated with strong anharmonicity, which can cause significant deviations from the expected Lorentzian lineshape of phonon spectral functions. These deviations,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-20 Đorđe Dangić , Giovanni Caldarelli , Raffaello Bianco , Ivana Savić , Ion Errea

The lattice thermal conductivity ($\kappa$) of two ceramic materials, cerium dioxide (CeO$_2$) and magnesium oxide (MgO), is computed up to 1500 K using first principles and the phonon Boltzmann Transport Equation (PBTE) and compared to…

We developed a novel contactless frequency-domain approach to study thermal transport, which is particularly convenient when thermally anisotropic materials are considered. The method is based on a similar line-shaped heater geometry as…