Nanofins: Science

Abstract

This chapter provides background information on carbon nanotubes (CNT), molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, and interfacial thermal resistance (R k ). The first section discusses carbon nanotubes, their structure, properties, and potential applications. The second section introduces the molecular dynamics simulations. This section discusses the basic equations describing the motion of the atoms, the force field to calculate potential energy of the system, boundary conditions, and ensembles employed in this work and space-time correlation to calculate the properties of the system. The last two sections detail the interfacial thermal resistance, theories developed to calculate interfacial resistance, importance of interfacial resistance at nanoscales, and the simulation techniques developed and used in calculating the interfacial thermal resistance.