Laws of macroscopic heat transfer and their limits / Jean-Jacques Greffet -- Transport in dilute media / Rémi Carminati -- Electrons and phonons / Jean-Jacques Greffet -- Introduction to radiative transfer -- Solution of the Boltzmann equation for phonon transport / Denis Lemonnier -- Radiative transfer on short length scales / Karl Joulain -- Monte Carlo method / Sebastian Volz -- Molecular dynamics / Patrice Chantrenne -- Optical techniques for local measurement / Stefan Dilhaire, Danièle Fournier, Gilles Tessier -- Hybrid techniques and multipurpose microscopes / Bernard Cretin, Pascal Vairac -- Energy exchange at short time scales: electron-phonon interactions in metals and metallic nanostructures / Fabrice Vallée -- Investigation of short-time heat transfer effects by an optical pump-probe method / Bernard Perrin
Summary
The book constitutes a particularly complete and original collection of ideas, models, numerical methods and experimental tools which will prove invaluable in the study of microscale and nanoscale heat transfer. It should be of interest to research scientists and thermal engineers who wish to carry out theoretical research or metrology in this field, but also to physicists concerned with the problems of heat transfer, or teachers requiring a solid foundation for an undergraduate university course in this area
