Abstract: In recent years, there has been interest in employing atomistic computations to inform macroscale thermal transport analyses. In heat conduction simulations in semiconductors and dielectrics, for example, classical molecular ...

Abstract: Sequential numerical solution methods are commonly used for solving the phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) because of simplicity of implementation and low storage requirements. However, they exhibit poor convergence ...

Abstract: Optimization under uncertainty (OUU) is a powerful methodology used in design and optimization to produce robust, reliable designs. Such an optimization methodology, employed when the input quantities of interest are ...

Abstract: Nongray phonon transport solvers based on the Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) are being increasingly employed to simulate submicron thermal transport in semiconductors and dielectrics. Typical sequential solution schemes ...

Abstract: This work examines the impact of defects on the resonant response of singlewall carbon nanotube (CNT) resonators using classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The work demonstrates that the presence of defects in ...