Reconstructing the thermal phonon transmission coefficient at solid interfaces in the phonon transport equation

DOI10.1137/20M1381666MaRDI QIDQ5024358zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Qin Li, Anjali N. Nair, Irene M. Gamba

Publication date 31 January 2022

Published in SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13047

zbMATH Keywords

kinetic theorylinear Boltzmann equationstochastic gradient descent

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boltzmann equations (35Q20) Transport equations (35Q49) Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30) Numerical methods for inverse problems for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M32)

Abstract: The ab initio model for heat propagation is the phonon transport equation, a Boltzmann-like kinetic equation. When two materials are put side by side, the heat that propagates from one material to the other experiences thermal boundary resistance. Mathematically, it is represented by the reflection coefficient of the phonon transport equation on the interface of the two materials. This coefficient takes different values at different phonon frequencies, between different materials. In experiments scientists measure the surface temperature of one material to infer the reflection coefficient as a function of phonon frequency. In this article, we formulate this inverse problem in an optimization framework and apply the stochastic gradient descent (SGD) method for finding the optimal solution. We furthermore prove the maximum principle and show the Lipschitz continuity of the Fr'echet derivative. These properties allow us to justify the application of SGD in this setup.

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