Modeling the Thermal Conductivity and Phonon Transport in Nanoparticle Composites Using Monte Carlo Simulation

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Heat Transfer in Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (2013, methodology): “[237] used MC simulations to study 3D phonon transport in nanocomposites using a gray-medium approach and showed that the effective thermal conductivity of nanocomposites can reach below the alloy limit [92].”
On the tuning of electrical and thermal transport in thermoelectrics: an integrated theory–experiment perspective (2016, methodology): “Size effects in the phonon transport of Ge containing Si nanoparticles were emphasised by the Monte Carlo simulation.(115) Several studies documented the optimal sizes and distributions in the nanocomposites.”
Efficient simulation of multidimensional phonon transport using energy-based variance-reduced Monte Carlo formulations (2011, methodology): “; Jeng et al. introduced a method for eciently treating transmission and re ection of phonons at material interfaces and used this method to model the thermal conductivity of nanoparticle composites [4]. Hao et al. developed [10] a formulation for periodic boundary conditions in order to study the t”