Archivio Istituzionale della RicercaThe thermal transport in a solid happens when the material is subjected to a thermal gradient. If free electrons are absent, the thermal transport is due to the phonons, the quasiparticles corresponding to the vibrations of the atoms of the crystal. The equation that describes this transport is the phonon Boltzmann equation. Here we show how to solve it by means of the variational principle.
The Variational Principle and the Phonon Boltzmann Equation / Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina. - In: MECHANICS, MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING JOURNAL. - ISSN 2412-5954. - 8:(2017). [10.2412/mmse.11.97.135]
The Variational Principle and the Phonon Boltzmann Equation
SPARAVIGNA, Amelia Carolina
2017
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The thermal transport in a solid happens when the material is subjected to a thermal gradient. If free electrons are absent, the thermal transport is due to the phonons, the quasiparticles corresponding to the vibrations of the atoms of the crystal. The equation that describes this transport is the phonon Boltzmann equation. Here we show how to solve it by means of the variational principle.
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