Mesoscopic Theories of Heat Transport in Nanosystems [Hardcover]

This book presents generalized heat-conduction laws which, from a mesoscopic perspective, are relevant to new applications (especially in nanoscale heat transfer, nanoscale thermoelectric phenomena, and in diffusive-to-ballistic regime) and at the same time keep up with the pace of current microscopic research. The equations presented in the book are compatible with generalized formulations of nonequilibrium thermodynamics, going beyond the local-equilibrium. The book includes six main chapters, together with apreface and a final section devoted to the future perspectives, as well as an extensive bibliography.

1 Nonequilibriumthermodynamics and heat transport at nanoscale.- 2 Linear and nonlinearheat-transport equations.- 3 Mesoscopic description of boundary effects andeffective thermal conductivity in nanosystems: phonon hydrodynamics.- 4 Mesoscopicdescription of effective thermal conductivity in porous systems, nanocompositesand nanofluids.- 5 Weakly nonlocal and nonlinear heat transport.- 6 Heattransport with phonons and electrons and efficiency of thermoelectric generators.-7 Perspectives.

David Jou (born in Sitges,Catalonia, Spain in 1953) is Full Professor of Physics of Condensed Matter atthe Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. He has published 230 researchpapers on nonequilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics as well as severalbooks, including Extended Irreversible Thermodynamics(with J. Casas-V?zquez and G Lebon, Springer, now in its 4^thedition, 2014), Thermodynamics of Fluids UnderFlow (with J. Casas-V?zquez and M. Criado-Sancho, Springer, 2014), and Understanding Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics (with G. Lebon and J. Casas-V?zquez,Springer, 2008).

Vito AntonioCimmelli (born in Sarno, Italy in 1958) is a Full Professor of MathematicalPhysics at the UniverlÓL