Boundary Conditions and Evolution of Ballistic Heat Transport
J. Heat Transfer -- January 2010 -- Volume 132, Issue 1, 012404 (6 pages)
doi:10.1115/1.3156785
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We analyze the effects of boundary conditions on the evolution of ballistic heat transport in four theoretical models and propose that a Fourier equation with an effective size-dependent thermal conductivity is a good candidate for the description of ballistic transport when boundary conditions are suitably imposed.
©2010 American Society of Mechanical Engineers
| History: | Received 7 November 2008; revised 10 April 2009; published 4 November 2009 | |
| doi: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.3156785 | |



