Calculating thermal conductivity in a transient conduction regime: theory and implementation

European Physical Journal B

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1-9

  Melis, Claudio ^a   Dettori, Riccardo ^a   Vandermeulen, Simon ^a   Colombo, Luciano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computational Methods

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

APPROACH TO EQUILIBRIUM; LATTICE DISORDERS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS METHODS; NANOSTRUCTURED SILICON; NONUNIFORM TEMPERATURE; SIMULATION PARAMETERS; TRANSIENT CONDUCTION; VIBRATIONAL MODES;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84904790601     PISSN: 14346028     EISSN: 14346036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2014-50119-0     Document Type: Article

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