Session: K9 Panel: Nanoscale Heat Transfer Education

Paper Number: 109996

109996 - Textbooks and Monographs in Nanoscale Thermal Transport 

          Since late 1980s, microscale and nanoscale heat transfer has emerged as a promising field, along with miniaturization and nanotechnology. Educating mechanical engineering students with a solid background in thermal transport at the nanoscale became critically important. In late 1990s, monograph and edited books [1,2] were published and used as references for graduate courses. Later, textbooks have also been written with a full coverage of micro/nanoscale conduction, convection, and thermal radiation, especially near-field radiative heat transfer [3,4]. Some traditional heat conduction and thermal radiation textbooks have also included coverages on near-field heat transfer in their late editions [5-7]. More specialized monographs have also been published related to the applications, measurements, and lecture notes [8-10]. These textbooks and monographs form an excellent collection of resources for instructors to use in the classroom teaching for both graduate and undergraduate students.

          Substantial updates and enhancements have been made in the recent edition of the Nano/Microscale Heat Transfer textbook [4], with about 300 homework problems and open source MATLAB codes available in the author’s website. It has incorporated a detailed discussion on intermolecular forces and first principles simulations, coherent phonons, thermal conductivity spectroscopy, quantum size effects on thermal properties and transport, thermal properties of soft materials, hyperbolic metamaterials with exotic radiative properties, graphene and two-dimensional materials, near-field radiative heat transfer measurements, etc. A historical overview of the textbook development in micro/nanoscale thermal transport with an emphasis of the latest edition of Nano/Microscale Heat Transfer [4] will be presented.

[1]    D. Y. Zhou, Macro- to Microscale Heat Transfer, Taylor & Francis (1997); 2^nd edn., Wiley (2015).

[2]    C. L. Tien, A. Majumdar, and F. M. Gerner (eds.), Microscale Energy Transport, Taylor & Francis (1998).

[3]    G. Chen, Nanoscale Energy Transport and Conversion, Oxford University Press (2005).

[4]    Z. M. Zhang, Nano/Microscale Heat Transfer, MaGraw-Hill (2007); 2^nd edn., Springer (2020).

[5]    D. W. Hahn and M. N. Ozisik, Heat Conduction, 3^rd edn., Wiley (2012).

[6]    J. R. Howell, M. P. Menguc, K. Daun, and R. Siegel, Thermal Radiation Heat Transfer, 7^th edn., CRC Press (2020).

[7]    M. F. Modest and S. Mazumder, Radiative Heat Transfer, 4^th edn., Academic Press/Elsevier (2021).

[8]    C. B. Sobhan and G. P. Peterson, Microscale and Nanoscale Heat Transfer – Fundamentals and Engineering Applications, CRC Press (2008).

[9]    X. W. Wang, Experimental Micro/Nanoscale Thermal Transport, Wiley (2012).

[10]  T. S. Fisher, Thermal Energy at the Nanoscale, World Scientific (2013).

Presenting Author: Zhuomin Zhang gatech