The control of heat conduction through the manipulation of phonons as coherent waves in solids is of fundamental interest and could also be exploited in applications, but coherent heat conduction has not been experimentally confirmed. We report the experimental observation of coherent heat conduction through the use of finite-thickness superlattices with varying numbers of periods. The measured...

This work uses the dual-phase-lag (DPL) model of heat conduction to demonstrate the effect of temperature gradient relaxation time on the result of non-Fourier hyperbolic conduction in a finite slab subjected to a periodic thermal disturbance. DPL model combines the wave features of hyperbolic conduction with a diffusion-like feature of the evidence not captured by the hyperbolic case. For the ...

We study networks of interacting oscillators, driven at the boundary by heat baths at possibly different temperatures. A set of first elementary questions are discussed concerning the uniqueness of a stationary possibly Gibbsian density and the nature of the entropy production and the local heat currents. We also derive a Carnot efficiency relation for the work that can be extracted from the he...

Different non-Fourier models of heat conduction have recently been considered in the modeling of microscale heat transfer in engineering and biomedical heat transfer problems. The dual-phase-lagging model, incorporating time lags in the heat flux and the temperature gradient, and some of its particular cases and approximations, result in heat conduction modeling equations in the form of retarde...

Effect of a crystalline-amorphous interface on heat conduction has been studied using atomistic simulations of a silicon system. System with amorphous silicon was created using the bond-switching Monte Carlo simulation method and heat conduction near room temperature was studied by molecular dynamics simulations of this system. INTRODUCTION As the sizes of electronic devices decrease an increas...

Starting from the basic equations of solids we have shown one possible construction of the modification method of the law of heat conduction. Based on this method the steps of development can be outlined, the sequence and role of the tasks can be established. As an additional result we managed to highlight some aspects of the cognitive process, which emerge in the course of natural scientific r...

The hyperbolic heat conduction equation (HHCE), which acknowledges the finite speed of heat propagation, is based on microscopic evidence from the kinetic theory and statistical mechanics. However, it was argued that the HHCE could violate the second law of thermodynamics. This paper shows that a HHCE like equation (RHCE) can be derived directly from the theory of relativity, as a direct conseq...

In the heat conduction problems if the heat flux and/or temperature histories at the surface of a solid body are known as functions of time, then the temperature distribution can be found. This is termed as a direct problem. However in many heat transfer situations, the surface heat flux and temperature histories must be determined from transient temperature measurements at one or more interior...

Non-Fourier models of heat conduction have been increasingly considered in the last years in the modeling of microscale heat transfer in engineering and biomedical problems. Models that incorporate time lags in the heat flux and/or the temperature gradient result in heat conduction modeling equations in the form of partial differential equations with delay, while some approximations may yield p...

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