Constitutive equations for heat conduction in nanosystems and nonequilibrium processes: an overview

Jou, David; Cimmelli, Vito Antonio

doi:10.1515/caim-2016-0014

Abstract

We provide an overview on the problem of modeling heat transport at nanoscale and in far-from-equilibrium processes. A survey of recent results is summarized, and a conceptual discussion of them in the framework of Extended Irreversible Thermodynamics is developed.

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