April 2023 - Heat Transfer
Cooling an electronic device
The demonstrator of the EDStar plateform
After our perspective article in Science Advances (The teapot in a city: A paradigm shift in urban climate modeling), we are now launching a series of technical papers. They detail both the theoretical and practical implications of an alternative view of heat transfer. The first, co-authored by 44 researchers at 17 institutions, is available in Plos One. It supports the intuitive pictures of continuous thermal paths that run through the different physics at work (radiation, conduction and convection). First, the theoretical frameworks of propagators and Green’s functions are used to demonstrate that a coupled model involving different physical phenomena can be probabilized. Second, they are extended and made operational using the Feynman-Kac theory and stochastic processes. Finally, the theoretical framework is supported by a new proposal for an approximation of coupled Brownian trajectories compatible with highly refined geometry.
