Thermal Transport in Low Dimensions From Statistical Physics to Nanoscale Heat Transfer /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lepri, Stefano (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 921
• Subjects: Physics.; Nanoscale science.; Nanoscience.; Nanostructures.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Thermodynamics.; Heat engineering.; Heat transfer.; Mass transfer.; Nanotechnology.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer.; Nanoscale Science and Technology.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.

Understanding non-equilibrium properties of classical and quantum many-particle systems is one of the goals of contemporary statistical mechanics. Besides its own interest for the theoretical foundations of irreversible thermodynamics(e.g. of the Fourier's law of heat conduction), this topic is...

Table of Contents:

• Heat transport in low dimensions: introduction and phenomenology
• Heat transport in harmonic systems
• Fluctuating hydrodynamics approach to equilibrium time correlations for anharmonic chains
• Kinetic theory of phonons in weakly anharmonic particle chains
• Thermal conductivity in harmonic lattices with random collisions
• Simulation of heat transport in low-dimensional oscillator lattices
• Simulation of dimensionality effects in thermal transport
• Experimental Probing of Non‐Fourier Thermal Conductors
• Thermal Transport in Graphene, Few-Layer Graphene and Graphene Nanoribbons
• From thermal rectifiers to thermoelectric devices.