Phase change energy storage technology, which can solve the contradiction between the
supply and demand of thermal energy and alleviate the energy crisis, has aroused a lot of …

Thermal transport at the nanoscale level is attracting attention not only because of its
physically interesting features such as the peculiar behavior of phonons due to their …

The heat dissipation issue has now become one of the most important bottlenecks for power
electronics due to the rapid increase in power density and working frequency. Towards the …

With significant recent advancements in thermal sciences—such as the development of new
theoretical and experimental techniques, and the discovery of new transport mechanisms—it …

Understanding and quantifying the fundamental physical property of coherence of thermal
excitations is a long-standing and general problem in physics. The conventional theory, ie …

In the past few decades, numerous heat conduction models extending beyond Fourier's
have been developed to account for large gradients, fast phenomena, wave propagation …

Energy transfer in small nano-sized systems can be very different from that in their
macroscopic counterparts due to reduced dimensionality, interaction with surfaces, disorder …

The Tesla valve benefits the rectification of fluid flow in microfluidic systems,,,,–and inspires
researchers to design modern solid-state electronic and thermal rectifiers referring to fluid …

In the hydrodynamic regime, phonons drift with a nonzero collective velocity under a
temperature gradient, reminiscent of viscous gas and fluid flow. The study of hydrodynamic …

Nonlinear heat transfer can be exploited to reveal novel transport phenomena and thus
enhance people's ability to manipulate heat flux at will. However, there has not been a …