In this work thermal conduction in one-dimensional （1D） chains of anharmonic oscillators are studied using computer simulation. The temperature profile, heat flux and thermal conductivity are investigated for chain ...In this work thermal conduction in one-dimensional （1D） chains of anharmonic oscillators are studied using computer simulation. The temperature profile, heat flux and thermal conductivity are investigated for chain length N = 100, 200, 400, 800 and 1600. In the computer simulation anharmonicity is introduced due to Fermi-Pasta- U1am-β （FPU-β） model For substrate interaction, an onsite potential due to Frenkel-Kontorova （FK） model has been used. Numerical simulations demonstrate that temperature gradient scales behave as N-1 linearly with the relation J = 0.1765/N. For the thermal conductivity K, KN to N obey the linear relation of the type KN = 0.8805N. It is shown that thermal transport is dependent on phonon-phonon interaction as web as phonon-lattice interaction. The thermal conductivity increases linearly with increase inanharmonicity and predicts relation κ =0.133 ＋ 0.804β. It is also concluded that for higher value of the strength of the onsite potential system tends to a thermal insulator.展开更多
文摘In this work thermal conduction in one-dimensional （1D） chains of anharmonic oscillators are studied using computer simulation. The temperature profile, heat flux and thermal conductivity are investigated for chain length N = 100, 200, 400, 800 and 1600. In the computer simulation anharmonicity is introduced due to Fermi-Pasta- U1am-β （FPU-β） model For substrate interaction, an onsite potential due to Frenkel-Kontorova （FK） model has been used. Numerical simulations demonstrate that temperature gradient scales behave as N-1 linearly with the relation J = 0.1765/N. For the thermal conductivity K, KN to N obey the linear relation of the type KN = 0.8805N. It is shown that thermal transport is dependent on phonon-phonon interaction as web as phonon-lattice interaction. The thermal conductivity increases linearly with increase inanharmonicity and predicts relation κ =0.133 ＋ 0.804β. It is also concluded that for higher value of the strength of the onsite potential system tends to a thermal insulator.
