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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…

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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

Mesoscopic numerical simulation has become an important tool in thermal management and energy harvesting at the micro/nano scale, where the Fourier's law failed. However, it is not easy to efficiently solve the phonon Boltzmann transport…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Chuang Zhang , Samuel Huberman , Xinliang Song , Jin Zhao , Songze Chen , Lei Wu

Data-driven modeling of spatiotemporal physical processes with general deep learning methods is a highly challenging task. It is further exacerbated by the limited availability of data, leading to poor generalizations in standard neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Timothy Praditia , Matthias Karlbauer , Sebastian Otte , Sergey Oladyshkin , Martin V. Butz , Wolfgang Nowak

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

Phonon transport near nanoscale hotspots (NHs) critically determines heat dissipation in advanced electronic devices. The prevailing understanding is that the enhanced thermal resistance (TR) observed in NHs originates from long mean free…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Jae Sik Jin

The prohibitive cost and low fidelity of experimental data in industry scale thermofluid systems limit the usefulness of pure data-driven machine learning methods. Physics-informed neural networks (PINN) strive to overcome this by embedding…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-25 Ryno Laubscher , Pieter Rousseau

The Gray Radiative Transfer Equations (GRTEs) are high-dimensional, multiscale problems that pose significant computational challenges for traditional numerical methods. Current deep learning approaches, including Physics-Informed Neural…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Xizhe Xie , Wengu Chen , Zheng Ma , Han Wang

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

Ultrafast thermal transport in low-dimensional materials challenges traditional diffusive models due to reduced scattering, strong electron-phonon coupling, and pronounced non-equilibrium effects. To address these complexities, we extend…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Houssem Rezgui , Chuang Zhang , Clivia Sotomayor-Torres

In this paper, a finite-volume discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) based on the non-gray phonon transport model is developed for multiscale heat transfer problem with arbitrary temperature difference. Under large temperature…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Chuang Zhang , Zhaoli Guo

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) are a new tool for solving boundary value problems by defining loss functions of neural networks based on governing equations, boundary conditions, and initial conditions. Recent investigations have…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Ali Harandi , Ahmad Moeineddin , Michael Kaliske , Stefanie Reese , Shahed Rezaei

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

In this book chapter we provide the definition of "Simulating Nanoscale Heat Transport", broadly regarded as modeling heat conduction beyond Fourier's law. We primarely focus on incoherent transport, which is dominated by scattering between…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-22 Giuseppe Romano , Jean-Philippe Peraud , Jeffrey C. Grossman

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

Designing materials with controlled heat flow at the nano-scale is central to advances in microelectronics, thermoelectrics, and energy-conversion technologies. At these scales, phonon transport follows the Boltzmann Transport Equation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Antonio Varagnolo , Giuseppe Romano , Raphaël Pestourie

In this paper, a fast synthetic iterative scheme is developed to accelerate convergence for the implicit DOM based on the stationary phonon BTE. The key innovative point of the present scheme is the introduction of the macroscopic synthetic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-18 Chuang Zhang , Songze Chen , Zhaoli Guo , Lei Wu

We use physics informed neural networks (PINNs) to solve the radiative transfer equation and calculate a synthetic spectrum for a Type Ia supernova (SN~Ia) SN 2011fe. The calculation is based on local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) and 9…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-11 Xingzhuo Chen , David J. Jeffery , Ming Zhong , Levi McClenny , Ulisses Braga-Neto , Lifan Wang

Flexoelectricity, the coupling between strain gradients and electric polarization, poses significant computational challenges due to its governing fourth-order partial differential equations that require C1-continuous solutions. To address…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-30 Hyeonbin Moon , Donggeun Park , Jinwook Yeo , Seunghwa Ryu

Radiation heat transfer in a graded-index medium often suffers accuracy problems due to the gradual changes in the refractive index. The finite element method, meshfree, and other numerical methods often struggle to maintain accuracy when…

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