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Published on: March 30, 2017
Energy transport in harmonically driven segmented Frenkel-Kontorova lattices
1SEPI ESIME-Culhuacán, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Avenida Santa Ana 1000, Colonia San Francisco Culhuacán, Delegación Coyoacan, Distrito Federal 04430, Mexico.
Abstract:
In this work we study the energy transport in a one-dimensional system composed of two dissimilar Frenkel-Kontorova lattices connected by a time-modulated coupling and in contact with two heat reservoirs operating at different temperature by means of molecular dynamics simulations. There is a value of the driving frequency at which the heat flux takes its maximum value, a phenomenon termed thermal resonance. Structural modifications in the lattice strongly alter the way in which the external driving interacts with the phonon bands. The overlap of the latter in the harmonic regime of the model determines the frequency range wherein resonance emerges. Parameter dependencies by which the incoming heat flux can be directed to either of the heat reservoirs are examined as well. Our results may be conductive to further developments in designing thermal devices.
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